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Do Employers Prefer Undocumented Workers? Evidence from China's Hukou System
Kuhn, Peter - 2014
We study urban Chinese employers' preferences between workers with and without a local residence permit (hukou) using callback information from an Internet job board serving private sector employers. We find that employers prefer migrant workers to locals who are identically matched to the job's...
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Employer Learning and the 'Importance' of Skills
Light, Audrey - 2012
We ask whether the role of employer learning in the wage-setting process depends on skill type and skill importance to productivity. Combining data from the NLSY79 with O*NET data, we use Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery scores to measure seven distinct types of pre-market skills that...
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Employer Policies and the Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap
Dostie, Benoit - 2020
We use longitudinal data from the income tax system to study the impacts of firms' employment and wage-setting policies on the level and change in immigrant-native wage differences in Canada. We focus on immigrants who arrived in the early 2000s, distinguishing between those with and without a...
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The Impact of Migration on Productivity and Native-Born Workers' Training
Campo, Francesco - 2018
We investigate the relationship between migration and productivity in the UK, using an instrumental variable along the lines suggested by Bianchi, Buonanno and Pinotti (2012). Our results suggest that immigration has a positive and significant impact (in both the statistical sense and more...
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The Impact of Skilled Foreign Workers on Firms : An Investigation of Publicly Traded U.S. Firms
Ghosh, Anirban - 2014
Many U.S. businessmen are vocally in favor of an increase in the number of H-1B visas. Is there systematic evidence that this would positively affect firms' productivity, sales, employment or profits? To address these questions we assemble a unique dataset that matches all labor condition...
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Interacting Product and Labor Market Regulation and the Impact of Immigration on Native Wages
Prantl, Susanne - 2014
Does interacting product and labor market regulation alter the impact of immigration on wages of competing native workers? Focusing on the large, sudden and unanticipated wave of migration from East to West Germany after German reunification and allowing for endogenous immigration, we compare...
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Gender Discrimination in Job Ads : Theory and Evidence
Kuhn, Peter - 2015
We study firms' advertised gender preferences in a population of ads on a Chinese internet job board, and interpret these patterns using a simple employer search model. The model allows us to distinguish firmsﾒ underlying gender preferences from firmsﾒ propensities to restrict their search...
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Overeducation, Major Mismatch, and Return to Higher Education Tiers : Evidence from Novel Data Source of a Major Online Recruitment Platform in China
zheng, yanqiao; Zheng, Xiaoqi; Zhu, Yu - 2021
We develop a novel approach to study overeducation by extracting pre-match information from online recruitment … method to China, which has experienced a 10-fold expansion of its higher education sector over the last two decades. We find … that about half of online job-seekers in China are two or more years overeducated, resulting in 5.1% pay penalty. However …
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Development and Sources of Labor Productivity in Chinese Provinces
Su, Biwei - 2012
As China exhibited unprecedented rapid economic growth ever since its reform and openness, the development and sources …
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The Effect of Pollution on Worker Productivity : Evidence from Call-Center Workers in China
Chang, Tom - 2016
China. Using precise measures of each worker's daily output linked to daily measures of pollution and meteorology, we find …
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