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Low-wage jobs, foreign-born workers, and firm performance
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther; … - 2023
We examine how migrant workers impact firm performance using administrative data from the United States. Exploiting an unexpected change in firms' likelihood of securing low-wage workers through the H-2B visa program, we find limited crowd-out of other forms of employment and no impact on...
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Couples, careers, and spatial mobility
Nassal, Lea Maria; Paul, Marie - 2022
We investigate the effects of long-distance moves of married couples on both spouses' earnings, employment and job characteristics based on a new administrative dataset from Germany. Employing difference-in-difference propensity score matching and accounting for spouses' premove employment...
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Public beliefs in social mobility and high-skilled migration
Lumpe, Claudia - 2017
Einwanderungslands von hochqualifizierten Migranten beeinflusst. Wir kombinieren Makrodaten aus dem IAB brain drain Datensatz mit … hochqualifizierten Migranten (stocks) in den wesentlichen OECD Einwanderungsländern zu messen. Die empirischen Ergebnisse zeigen, daß … durch eigene harte Arbeit erzielt werden kann, einen höheren Anteil an hochqualifizierten Migranten attrahieren. Dieses …
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Occupational mismatch of immigrants in Europe : the role of education and cognitive skills
Cim, Merve; Kind, Michael Sebastian; Kleibrink, Jan - 2017
international vergleichbaren Fragebögen der PIAAC Daten ist es möglich, die unterschiedlichen Qualifikationen von Migranten und … beschäftigen wir uns mit Bildungs- und Qualifikationsunterschieden zwischen Migranten und Einheimischen in elf europäischen Ländern … im selben Beruf. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Migranten im Vergleich zu Einheimischen für ihre Berufe häufig …
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Labour market entry conditions, wages and job mobility
Bachmann, Ronald; Bauer, Thomas K.; David, Peggy - 2010
Economic conditions at the time of labour market entry can induce wage differentials between workers entering the labour market at different points in time. While the existence and persistence of these entry wage differentials are well documented, little is known about their interaction with...
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Walking wounded - the causal welfare loss of underemployment through overeducation
Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Kleibrink, Jan - 2013
Using data from the SOEP, we analyze the wellbeing impact of underemployment through overeducation to examine a broader definition of employment loss. Persons leaving a job through exogenous reasons but entering directly into immediate employment may not find a perfect employment match and...
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Analyzing further training participation rates across waves in the NEPS data
Rzepka, Sylvi - 2016
The spell-based nature of the National Educational Panel Study poses some challenges for analyzing training participation rates across waves. Raw training participation rates of each wave using courses compiled in the SpCourses data set and in the SpEmp data set differ by up to 75 percent across...
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International trade and worker turnover : empirical evidence for Germany
Baumgarten, Daniel - 2010
Using a linked employer-employee data set for Germany, this paper studies how worker turnover is related to establishments‘ international trade involvement. The descriptive analysis shows that trading establishments have lower worker turnover rates than non-traders, suggesting a higher degree...
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Revisiting the complementarity between education and training : the role of personality, working tasks and firm effects
Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - 2011
This paper addresses the question to which extent the complementarity between education and training can be attributed to differences in observable characteristics, i.e. to individual, job and firm specific characteristics. The novelty of this paper is to analyze previously unconsidered...
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The effect of minimum wages on labour market flows : evidence from Germany
Bachmann, Ronald; Penninger, Marion; Schaffner, Sandra - 2015
Using a linked employer-employee data set on the German construction industry, we analyse the effects of the introduction of minimum wages in this sector on labour market dynamics at the establishment level, i.e. turnover and churning flows, as well as accessions and separations and their...
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