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Overskilling Dynamics and Education Pathways
Mavromaras, Kostas G. - 2009
This paper uses panel data and econometric methods to estimate the incidence and the dynamic properties of overskilling among employed individuals. The paper begins by asking whether there is extensive overskilling in the labour market, and whether overskilling differs by education pathway. The...
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A Panel Study of Immigrants' Overeducation and Earnings in Australia
Wen, Le - 2017
Non-English Speaking, Backgrounds relative to the native-born population in Australia. Based on nine years of longitudinal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012940841
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Understanding the Workweek of Foreign Born Workers in the United States
Lozano, Fernando A. - 2009
I analyze the length of the workweek of foreign-born workers in the U.S. I concentrate on workers supplying long hours of work − 50 or more weekly hours and document that immigrants are less likely than natives to work long hours. Surprisingly, these differences are greatest among highly...
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Employer Attitudes, the Marginal Employer and the Ethnic Wage Gap
Carlsson, Magnus - 2012
Ethnic minorities have lower wages compared to the ethnic majority in most EU-countries. However, to what extent these wage gaps are the result of prejudice toward ethnic minority workers is virtually unknown. This study sets out to examine what role prejudice play in the creation of the ethnic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113081
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Labour Force Participation and Job Polarization : Evidence from Europe During the Great Recession
Verdugo, Gregory - 2020
the estimates of the impact of labour demand shocks on participation. For men, unemployment increased in response to …
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Lockdown and Rural Joblessness in India : Gender Inequality in Employment?
Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal - 2022
, we investigate the probability of female employment during the lockdown period between March and May 2020. Based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083707
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The Effect of Shocks to Labour Market Flows on Unemployment and Participation Rates
Dixon, Robert John - 2014
performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states - employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in … interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market …
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When Short-Time Work Works
Cahuc, Pierre - 2018
of other employment policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012914329
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Overeducation at a Glance : Determinants and Wage Effects of the Educational Mismatch, Looking at the Almalaurea Data
Caroleo, Floro E. - 2013
This paper provides the first available evidence on overeducation/overskilling based on AlmaLaurea data. We focus on jobs held 5 years after graduation by pre-reform graduates in 2005. Overeducation/overskilling are relatively high – at 11.4 and 8% – when compared to EU economies. Ceteris...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071750
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Skill Mismatches in the EU : Immigrants vs. Natives
Nieto, Sandra - 2013
The objective of this paper is to analyse and explain the factors behind the observed differences in skill mismatches (vertical and horizontal) between natives and immigrants in EU countries. Using microdata from the 2007 wave of the Adult Education Survey (AES), different probit models are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073509