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This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 … Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with … languages enhances the effects on earnings of schooling and pre-immigration labor market experience. Language proficiency and …
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the dynamics of consumption, hours, and earnings of two earners in the presence of correlated wage shocks, non …, earnings, assets and consumption. We focus on the importance of family labour supply as an insurance mechanism to wage shocks …
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Over the last 15 years, the Netherlands has experienced a tremendous jobs boom, mainly in services and female employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct utility of work, we find that institutional arrangements...
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considerable growth in earnings; others can hardly maintain their entry salaries. This article sheds light on the mechanisms … generating the observed heterogeneity in earnings progression by investigating the effects of on-the-job human capital … acquisition, explicit short-run incentives and career concern incentives on earnings progression. The model leads to predictions …
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sector wage setting and trade unions, in determining earnings differences across different types of employment. To do this we … use the KwaZulu-Natal Income Dynamics Study data from South Africa, which show extremely large average earnings … the earnings differentials within the private sector, including the union premium, but cannot explain the large premiums …
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Many contributions suggest that earnings instability has increased during the 1980s and 1990s. This paper develops and … explaining earnings instability. To study the evolution over time of these different components we extract two estimation samples … contribute to the increase in earnings instability even if it is only their joint effect that generates what we observe in the …
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correlations between risk aversion and labour market outcomes (full-time employment, temporary agency work, fixed-term contracts …
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country female labor supply. We obtain broadly similar effects analyzing the determinants of hourly earnings among the …
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Research on intergenerational income mobility has shown stronger persistence between parental and offspring's income in the UK than in Sweden. We use similar data sets for the two countries to explore whether these cross-national differences show up already early in offspring's life in outcomes...
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This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent … levels in China and significantly accentuates the reversal of the wage gap in favour of this country for the first half of …
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