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following arrival, wages of highly skilled immigrants grow at 8% a year. Rising prices of skills, occupational transitions …, accumulated experience in Israel and economy-wide rise in wages account for 3.4, 1.1, 1.5 and 1.4 percent each. In the long run …, the average wages of immigrants approach but do not converge to the wages of comparable natives. The main reason for that …
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In this paper, we estimate the rate of return to first degrees, masters degrees and PhDs in Britain using data from the Labour Force Survey. We estimate returns to broad subject groups and more narrowly defined disciplines, distinguishing returns by gender and attempting to control for...
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Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new …
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We use a quantile regression framework to investigate the degree to which work-related training affects the location, scale and shape of the conditional wage distribution. Human capital theory suggests that the percentage returns to training investments will be the same across the conditional...
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Using micro data on women in the Czech Republic, we compare returns to various measures of human capital at the end of communism (1989), in mid-transition (1996) and in late/posttransition (2002). We show: dramatic increases in returns to education from 1989 to 1996 but no change from 1996 to 2002;...
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In a meritocratic society an individual's economic success is determined by their ability, not by their parents' socio-economic status. We assess whether meritocracy has increased in both the British education system and labour market. The richness of our longitudinal data enables us to look at...
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make it easier for them to switch employers than for the part-time educated auditors. The predictions on tenure and wages …
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find that apprentices staying with their training firm after graduation have (1) higher wages and (2) longer first …
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stability of educational wage premia was justified by market forces. However, relative wages did not respond to negative net …
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. Its main findings are that point estimates of wages after graduation are close to actual wages, whereas the expectations … of the deviation of individual expectations from actual wages can not be explained, we find that rates of return to …
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