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We use data on refugees admitted to the Netherlands that include registration of education in their homeland by immigration officers. Such data are seldom available. We investigate the quality and reliability of the registrations and then use them to assess effects on refugees' economic position...
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This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation/under-education (ORU) literature are sensitive to whether the usual or reference levels of education are measured using the Realized Matches or Worker Self-Assessment methods. The...
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The payoff to schooling among the foreign born in the US is only around one-half of the payoff for the native born. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The paper uses the Over-education/ Required...
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zero to positive correlation with changes in native wages and native employment, in aggregate and by skill group. We …
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To what extent is labour mobility in the European Union a threat to the strength of unions? We argue that the combination of cheap labour, workforce heterogeneity, and low unionization among labour immigrants' is a potential challenge for unions. The challenge will be particularly severe if...
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shows that growing import competition from China differentially reduced earnings and employment rates for workers in more … largest for lower-skilled individuals. We show that domestic manufacturing employment declined much more in countries that saw …
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restrictions on employment opportunities help explain why immigrants have lower employment and wages than native citizens. To test … market restrictions, and linked register data 1999–2016. We document large negative employment and earnings effects of …
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This paper considers the labor market assimilation of immigrants in terms of earnings and employment (employment … for other origins. Among women, the pattern of assimilation in earnings and employment is more positive than among their …
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-analysis approach. To accomplish this, we gather information on 1,030 previously estimated wage effects and 432 employment effects of … wage level. This pattern is reversed for employment effects where the magnitudes are smaller. We combine this database with …. We do not detect a significant and robust association for the employment effects of foreign workers. …
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In this paper, we measure the implications of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for Palestinian employment and earnings … overseas foreign workers in the Israeli labor market. Data on Palestinian employment and earnings are taken from the … Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Palestinian employment rates in Israel and mean monthly earnings, regardless of work location …
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