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Migration and Culture
Epstein, Gil S. - 2010
Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding openly into the discussion, usually under some pseudonym. The authors bring culture into the open. They are concerned with how culture manifests itself in the migration process...
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Minimum Wages in Kenya
Andalon, Mabel; Pages, Carmen - 2021
This paper examines the performance of minimum wage legislation in Kenya, both in terms of its coverage and enforcement …
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The Occupational Attainment of American Jewry : 1990 to 2000
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2021
This paper compares the occupational distributions in 1990 and 2000 of adult white men and women for American Jews and non-Jews, after adjusting for the changes in occupational classifications. The data are from the microdata files from the National Jewish Population Surveys (1990, 2000/01) and...
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International Education and Economic Growth
Bergerhoff, Jan - 2013
highly educated students for their labour force, they face the additional cost of providing the education. In much of … countries benefit from educating international students. We derive conditions under which international education has a positive … extra growth of 0.049 percentage points. The benefits from international education increase when a country tunes its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082754
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New Technologies and Jobs in Europe
Albanesi, Stefania; Dias da Silva, Antonio; Jimeno, Juan F. - 2023
pace of technology diffusion and education, but also to the level of product market regulation (competition) and employment …
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The Prevalence and Effects of Occupational Licensing
Kleiner, Morris M.; Krueger, Alan B. - 2021
rely on state-level occupational licensing data. Workers who have higher levels of education are more likely to work in …
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Career Changers in Teaching Jobs : A Case Study Based on the Swiss Vocational Education System
Hof, Stefani - 2011
framework for this study is the Swiss vocational education system, which requires that teachers of vocational subjects must have …
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Disparities in Labor Market Outcomes acrossGeopolitical Regions in Nigeria: Fact or Fantasy?
Oyelere, Ruth Uwaifo - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Differences in geopolitical regions of Nigeria are not debatable. However, there is no clearconsensus on the dimension of these disparities. In this paper, claims of geopolitical regiondisparities in labor market outcomes are investigated using survey data from Nigeria between1996-1999...
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Assessing the Incidence and Wage Effects ofOver-Skilling in the Australian Labour Market
Mavromaras, Kostas; McGuinness, Seamus; Yin King Fok - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
severely over-skilled. Theincidence of skills mismatch varied little when the sample was split by education... …
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It’s the Opportunity Cost, Stupid!How Self-Employment Responds to FinancialIncentives of Return, Risk and Skew
Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
There is no robust empirical support for the effect of financial incentives on the decision towork in self-employment rather than as a wage earner. In the literature, this is seen as apuzzle. We offer a focus on the opportunity cost, i.e. the wages given up as an employee.Information on income...
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