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The Wages and Language Skills of U.S. Immigrants
Carliner, Geoffrey - 1996
arrived in the 1950s and 1960s eventually surpassed the average native wage. Improvements in English language skills …
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Do Gender-Neutral Job Ads Promote Diversity? Experimental Evidence from Latin America's Tech Sector
Del Carpio, Lucía; Fujiwara, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
partnership with a Spanish-speaking online platform for technology positions, ads randomly selected to use gender-neutral language … similar numbers otherwise. In a separate survey experiment, gender-neutral language in ads increases interest and beliefs …
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Language-Skill Complementarity : Returns to Immigrant Language Acquisition
Berman, Eli - 2000
We examine the effect of language acquisition on the growth of immigrants' earnings. We gathered data on recent Soviet … immigrants to Israel that include retrospective questions on earnings and language ability on entry into their current job …. Language acquisition is found to interact positively with occupation level. Immigrant programmers and computer technicians have …
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Everybody's Talkin' at Me : Levels of Majority Language Acquisition by Minority Language Speakers
Brock, William A.; Chen, Bo; Durlauf, Steven N.; Weber, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Immigrants in economies with a dominant native language exhibit substantial heterogeneities in language acquisition of … the majority language. We model partial equilibrium language acquisition as an equilibrium phenomenon. We consider an … environment where heterogeneous agents from various minority groups choose whether to acquire a majority language fully, partially …
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Immigration, Search, and Redistribution : A Quantitative Assessment of Native Welfare
Battisti, Michele - 2014
We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search frictions, wage bargaining, and a redistributive welfare state. Our quantitative analysis suggests that, in all 20 countries studied, immigration attenuates the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458533
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Heterogeneity and Cyclical Unemployment
Bils, Mark - 2009
We model worker heterogeneity in the rents from being employed in a Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides model of matching and unemployment. We show that heterogeneity, reflecting differences in match quality and worker assets, reduces the extent of fluctuations in separations and unemployment. We find...
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Mismatch Unemployment
Şahin, Ayşegül - 2012
We develop a framework where mismatch between vacancies and job seekers across sectors translates into higher unemployment by lowering the aggregate job-finding rate. We use this framework to measure the contribution of mismatch to the recent rise in U.S. unemployment by exploiting two sources...
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New Evidence on Teacher Labor Supply
Engel, Mimi - 2011
Recent evidence on the large variance in teacher effectiveness has spurred renewed interest in teacher labor market policies. A substantial body of prior research documents that more highly qualified teachers tend to work in more advantaged schools, although this literature cannot determine the...
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Meritocracy across Countries
Bandiera, Oriana; Kotia, Ananya; Lindenlaub, Ilse; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on skills rather than idiosyncratic attributes unrelated to productivity? If so, why? And what are the aggregate consequences? Using internationally comparable data on worker skills and...
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Skill of the Immigrants and Vote of the Natives : Immigration and Nationalism in European Elections 2007-2016
Moriconi, Simone - 2018
In this paper we document the impact of immigration at the regional level on Europeans' political preferences as expressed by voting behavior in parliamentary or presidential elections between 2007 and 2016. We combine individual data on party voting with a classification of each party's...
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