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How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and …
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Brain drain has long been a common concern for migrant-sending countries, particularly for small countries where high-skilled emigration rates are highest. However, while economic theory suggests a number of possible benefits, in addition to costs, from skilled emigration, the evidence base on...
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In this paper, we provide a comprehensive and up-to-date snapshot of the most important postsecondary education and labor market outcomes in the U.S. using two nationally representative sources of data: The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and The National Educational...
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, employment and wages for Roma and non-Roma. LIML methods are employed to control for endogenous schooling and two sources of … extent of discrimination. The key results are that: the employment returns to education are lower for Roma than for non …
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This paper uses firm level panel data of firm provided training to estimate its impact on productivity and wages. To this end the strategy proposed by Ackerberg, Caves and Frazer (2006) for estimating production functions to control for the endogeneity of input factors and training is applied....
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In this paper, we analyse differences in the cyclical pattern of employment and wages of immigrants and natives for two …
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Previous studies of migration have mainly examined international dynamics. Yet, internal migration is an important issue, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using the 2001 Ethiopia Child Labor Survey, a nationally representative household survey, this paper examines internal migration in...
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difference-in-differences model that compares employment rates across education type and age. An initial employment advantage of …
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job quality across four dimensions: sufficient income, access to employment benefits, job stability, and adequate working … of wage employment is relatively similar between men and women but with some variation in income and working conditions …
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The issue of employer power is underemphasized in the development literature. The default model is usually one of competitive labor markets. This assumption matters for analysis and policy prescription. There is growing evidence that the competitive labor markets assump- tion is not valid for...
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