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estimate a panel data model where immigrants can choose whether to stay or leave a country. The model is estimated using the … German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Outmigrants are found to have significantly lower labor market earnings and work … propensities than permanent migrants. …
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Using 1995 - 2006 Current Population Survey and 1970 - 2000 Census data, we study the intergenerational transmission of fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women's fertility and labor supply are significantly...
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The paper analyses the problem of a skills shortage in Australia. It begins with an analysis of the operation of a labour market in terms of stocks and flows of labour services and human capital acquisition. It discusses the definition of a skills shortage, why it persists, and then looks at...
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immigrants' labour force participation rate and employment probability. For recent immigrants who arrived in Canada within the … positively related to their employment probability in all censuses. However, living in an enclave has no significant effect on …
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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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generations of Mexican-origin men. I find that the sizable earnings advantage U.S.-born Mexican Americans enjoy over Mexican …
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permanent posts. Finally, our results suggest that agency employment may improve subsequent match quality in terms of wages and …We perform a comprehensive analysis of the stepping-stone effect of temporary agency employment on unemployed workers …. Using the timing-of-events approach, we not only investigate whether agency employment is a bridge into regular employment …
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For nearly 50 years academics have been studying how labor markets affect crime. The initial interesting and important theoretical and empirical work generated substantial interest in studying crime among economists, in particular, and scholars in the social sciences more broadly. This...
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headache on labor force participation, hours worked, and wages. We find that migraine headache is associated with a decrease in … wages. However, there is little evidence that migraine headache leads to reductions in labor force participation or hours … worked. We conclude that estimates of the cost of migraine headache to society should include its impact on wages. …
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We compare alternative methods for estimating immigrant wage and employment assimilation using unique panel data over …-effects model generates estimated employment assimilation profiles that are flatter and significantly different to those produced by …
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