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Experimental evidence on the long term impacts of a youth training program

Ibarrarán, Pablo; Kluve, Jochen; Ripani, Laura; Shady, … - 2015

-up. Our empirical findings document significant impacts on the formality of employment, particularly for men, and impacts for … are sustained and growing over time. There are no impacts on average employment, which is consistent with the low …

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Returns to local and foreign language skills : causal evidence from Spain

Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2013

This study examines the returns to foreign and local language skills of immigrants in the Spanish labor market. Different sources of endogeneity are addressed by deriving a set of novel instruments for language proficiency through a measure of linguistic dissimilarity. Using cross-sectional data...

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Disadvantages of linguistic origin : evidence from immigrant literacy scores

Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2013

This study quantifies the disadvantage in the formation of literacy skills of immigrants that arises from the linguistic distance between mother tongue and host country language. Combining unique cross-country data on literacy scores with information on the linguistic distance between languages,...

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Linguistic distance and the language fluency of immigrants

Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Otten, Sebastian - 2011

We use a newly available measure of linguistic distance developed by the German Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology to explain heterogeneity in language skills of immigrants. This measure is based on an automatical algorithm comparing pronunciation and vocabulary of language...

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Occupational mismatch of immigrants in Europe : the role of education and cognitive skills

Çim, Merve; Kind, Michael Sebastian; Kleibrink, Jan - 2017

Occupational mismatch is a wide-spread phenomenon among immigrants in many European countries. Mismatch, predominantly measured in terms of education, is often regarded as a waste of human capital. Such discussions, however, ignore the imperfect comparability of international educational degrees...

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Task specialization and the native-foreign wage gap : evidence from worker-level data

Storm, Eduard - 2021

Running RIF regressions to decompose wage differences along the distribution, this is the first study documenting that worker-level variation in tasks has played a key role in the widening of the German Native-Foreign Wage Gap. Comparing variation in Individual- vs Occupation-level task measures...

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Understanding cognitive decline in older ages : the role of health shocks

Schiele, Valentin; Schmitz, Hendrik - 2021

Individual cognitive functioning declines over time. We seek to understand how adverse physical health shocks in older ages contribute to this development. By use of event-study methods and data from the USA, England and several countries in Continental Europe we find evidence that health shocks...

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Obesity, weight loss, and employment prospects : evidence from a randomized trial

Reichert, Arndt R. - 2012

This study presents credible estimates for the causal effect of a variation in obesity on employment. By exploring … positively affects the employment prospects of obese women but not of obese men. Consistent with this, significant effects of … ; IV estimation ; sample selection ; labor productivity ; employment …

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Sick of your job? : negative health effects from non-optimal employment

Kleibrink, Jan - 2014

In an empirical study based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, the effect of job quality on individual health is analyzed. Extending previous studies methodologically to estimate unbiased effects of job satisfaction on individual health, it can be shown that low job satisfaction...

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The long term impacts of grants on poverty : 9-year evidence from Uganda's Youth Opportunities Program

Blattman, Christopher; Fiala, Nathan; Martinez, Sebastian - 2019

; controls eventually increased their incomes through business and casual labor; and so both groups converged in employment …

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