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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308588
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580302
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009687733
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009687734
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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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Occupational mismatch of immigrants in Europe : the role of education and cognitive skills
Cim, 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011632140
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009670135
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Marginal college wage premiums under selection into employment
Westphal, Matthias; Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Schmitz, Hendrik - 2020
account for women who select into employment due to having a college education, which we call college-induced selection into … employment (CISE). We find that women are, on average, more than 17 percentage points more likely to be employed due to having a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012250082
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Individualism vs. collectivism : how inherited cultural values affect labor market outcomes of second generation immigrants in the US
Höckel, Lisa Sofie - 2017
The labor market performance of second generation immigrants is a crucial determinant of integration. Labor market returns to their different cultural traits, however, have been rarely researched within the economic literature. This study provides insight on the link between the level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011592698