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The Dynamics of Return Migration, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wage Assimilation

Adda, Jerome; Dustmann, Christian; Goerlach, Joseph-Simon - 2022

profiles. Our study also explains the willingness of immigrants to accept jobs at wages that seem unacceptable to natives …

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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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The Evolution of the Returns to Human Capital in Canada, 1980-2005

Boudarbat, Brahim - 2010

We examine the evolution of the returns to human capital in Canada over the period 1980-2005. Our main finding is that returns to education increased substantially for Canadian men, contrary to conclusions reached previously. Most of this rise took place in the early 1980s and since 1995....

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Labour-Market Institutions and the Dispersion of Wage Earnings

Salverda, Wiemer - 2014

Considering the contribution of the distribution of individual wages and earnings to that of household incomes we find …

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Reallocation and the Role of Firm Composition Effects on Aggregate Wage Dynamics

Adamopoulou, Effrosyni - 2018

Aggregate wages display little cyclicality compared to what a standard model would predict. Wage rigidities are an … allocative efficiency on wages paid across firms. We show that this measure has improved over time since prior to the recent …. We then focus on the recent downturn and find that large firms were able to adjust wages more than small firms, and that …

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Labor Market Entry Conditions, Wages and Job Mobility

Bachmann, Ronald - 2010

Economic conditions at the time of labour market entry can induce wage differentials between workers entering the labour market at different points in time. While the existence and persistence of these entry wage differentials are well documented, little is known about their interaction with...

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Brain Types and Wages

Drydakis, Nick - 2015

We examine the association between brain types and wages using the UK Behavioural Study dataset for the period 2011 to … 2013 (four waves). By applying Empathising-Systemising Theory (E-S), the estimations suggest that, for men and women …

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Workers, Firms and Life-Cycle Wage Dynamics

Bingley, Paul - 2018

Studies of individual wage dynamics typically ignore firm heterogeneity, whereas decompositions of earnings into worker and firm effects abstract from life-cycle considerations. We study firm effects in individual wage dynamics using administrative data on the population of Italian employers and...

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Entrepreneurship, Wage Employment and Control in an Occupational Choice Framework

Douhan, Robin - 2009

We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...

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The Individual Perception of Wage Inequality : A Measurement Framework and Some Empirical Evidence

Kuhn, Andreas - 2016

This paper presents a simple conceptual framework specifically tailored to measure individual perceptions of wage inequality. Using internationally comparable survey data, the empirical part of the paper documents that there is huge variation in inequality perceptions both across and within...

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