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Wage and Occupational Assimilation by Skill Level
Alcobendas, Miguel - 2012
While much of the literature on immigrants' assimilation has focused on countries with a large tradition of receiving immigrants and with flexible labor markets, very little is known on how immigrants adjust to other types of host economies. With its severe dual labor market, and an...
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Local Human Capital Externalities and Wages at the Firm Level : The Case of Italian Manufacturing
Bratti, Massimiliano - 2009
We use a unique firm-level data set merging administrative information on average wages paid by firms by skill level … wages. This evidence is robust to many variants of the econometric specification and to addressing potential endogeneity …
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The Earnings of American Jewish Men : Human Capital, Denomination and Religiosity
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2006
This paper analyzes the determinants of the earnings of American Jewish men using the 2000/01 National Jewish Population Survey. Non-response to the question on earnings is analyzed. Earnings are related to conventional human capital variables, as well as Jewish-specific variables. Except for...
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Health and the Wage Rate : Cause, Effect, Both, or Neither? New Evidence on an Old Question
Dench, Daniel - 2018
We investigate two-way causality between health and the hourly wage by employing insights from the human capital and compensating wage differential models, a panel formed from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, and dynamic panel estimation methods in this investigation. We uncover a...
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Country of Origin and Immigrant Earnings, 1960-2000 : A Human Capital Investment Perspective
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2014
Using microdata from the 1960-2000 decennial censuses, this paper explores how large initial differences in immigrant earnings by country of origin change with duration in the United States. One analysis reveals that country of origin adds less to the explanation of earnings, among working-age...
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Stem Graduates, Human Capital Externalities, and Wages in the U.S
Winters, John V. - 2014
-STEM fields on the wages of other workers in the same metropolitan area. I find that both types of college graduates create …
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Earnings Over the Life Cycle : The Mincer Earnings Function and its Applications
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2021
In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings are distributed across the population. In the years since Mincer's seminal work, he as well as his students and colleagues extended the original human capital model, reaching important conclusions about a whole array...
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The Rate of Learning-By-Doing : Estimates from a Search-Matching Model
Prat, Julien - 2021
We construct and estimate by maximum likelihood an equilibrium search model where wages are set by Nash bargaining and … Survey data on accepted wages and employment durations. We show that it captures almost perfectly the joint distribution of … wages and job spells. We find that the rate of learning-by-doing has an important positive effect on aggregate output and a …
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Overtime Work and Overtime Compensation in Germany
Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Bauer, Thomas K. - 2021
Sharing the available stock of work more fairly is a popular concern in the public policy debate. One proposal is to reduce overtime work in order to allow the employment of more people. This paper suggests that such a concept faces major problems. Using Germany as a case study, it is shown that...
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German Job Mobility and Wages
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2021
The paper investigates the relative importance of job mobility for wages in comparison with the human capital framework …
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