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high-skill workers.In this paper we show that a model of employer taste-based discrimination in a labor market … workers. We use the model to undertake a structural decomposition and conclude that discrimination resulting from employer …
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differential. For instance, a large wage penalty occurs in the U.S. among female immigrants from non-English speaking countries …
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structure on labor supply differs between natives and immigrants, we explicitly distinguish between part-time and full-time jobs …
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-employee data to measure mean- and quantile-wage differentials of immigrants and ethnic minorities, both within and across firms. We …
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gap is left unexplained.In sum, these results are consistent with the presence of income discrimination towards females …
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Gender wage and employment gaps are negatively correlated across countries. We argue that non-random selection of women into work explains an important part of such correlation and thus of the observed variation in wage gaps. The idea is that, if women who are employed tend to have relatively...
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The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied … of overeducation among non-Western immigrants. We also analyze whether there is state-dependence in overeducation and … extend the immigrant educational mismatch literature by investigating whether this is a more severe problem among immigrants …
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Using 1990, 2000 censuses and a 2010 survey, I examine the economic performance of ethnically Chinese immigrants from … escalating in contrast to other immigrants. I show these widening gaps are largely explained by individual's endowments, mostly …
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captures the causal link from immigrants to native labor outcomes and we show estimates obtained with 2SLS method using the … briefly review the literature on the channels and the mechanisms that allow local economies to absorb immigrants with no …
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Previous studies show that immigrants married to natives earn higher wages than immigrants married to other immigrants … immigrants that tend to marry natives but are instead most likely a result of increasing returns to the characteristics of … immigrants married to natives. Because immigrants married to natives tend to have more schooling, part of the increasing premium …
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