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Race, wages, and assimilation among Cuban immigrants
Zavodny, Madeline - 2003
determinants of earnings among male Cuban immigrants in the United States by race. Nonwhite Cuban immigrants earn about 15 percent … immigrants also have lower returns to education than whites. A comparison to white, non-Hispanic U.S. natives indicates that …
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Family structure and sex differences in postdisplacement outcomes
Rodriguez, Daniel; Zavodny, Madeline - 2001
Labor force outcomes after an involuntary job loss tend to differ systematically between men and women, with women experiencing a lower probability of finding another job, a longer average duration of nonemployment, and larger losses in hours given reemployment. This study examines the role of...
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Why choose women's work if it pays less? A structural model of occupational choice
Pitts, M. Melinda - 2002
similar or higher expected wages in their chosen occupation compared to nonfemale-dominated occupations. This result indicates …
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Wages of childhood immigrants in Sweden: Education, returns to education and overeducation
Katz, Katarina; Österberg, Torun - 2013
We analyse full-time monthly wages of employees with parents born in Sweden and of childhood immigrants who arrived … countries, the risk of overeducation is larger than it is for adult immigrants and the difference in adjusted wages between …-European childhood immigrants and of those from Southern Europe suffer a wage disadvantage relative to natives, men to a larger extent …
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International Trade and Labor Market Integration of Immigrants
Lodefalk, Magnus; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Tang, Aili - 2020
, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We …We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate … immigrants from that country. By hiring immigrants, a firm may access foreign knowledge and networks needed to overcome …
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International Trade and Labor Market - Integration of Immigrants
Lodefalk, Magnus; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Tang, Aili - 2020
, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We …We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate … immigrants from that country. By hiring immigrants, a firm may access foreign knowledge and networks needed to overcome …
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Which industries are the best employers for women? An application of a new Equal Employment Opportunity Index
Graham, Mary E.; Hotchkiss, Julie - 2003
This paper introduces and proposes a policy application for a new Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Index. The index is comprised of multiple measures of employers' human resource management outcomes and is designed to reflect employers' systemic EEO efforts. The index is applied to industry...
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Technology and job retention among young adults, 1980-98
Zavodny, Madeline - 2000
Although many studies have examined whether job stability and security have declined over time, the role of technology in job turnover has received little attention. This analysis examines the relationship between the likelihood that a worker remains at the same job for two years and various...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397448
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The threat effect of participation in active labor market programs on job search behavior of migrants in Germany
Bergemann, Annette; Caliendo, Marco; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2011
Labor market programs may affect unemployed individuals' behavior before they enroll. Such ex ante effects may differ according to ethnic origin. We apply a novel method that relates self-reported perceived treatment rates and job search behavioral outcomes, such as the reservation wage or...
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Even education and experience has its limits: Closing the wage gap
Epstein, Gil S.; Gafni, Dalit; Siniver, Erez - 2014
Economic outcomes are compared for university graduates in Israel belonging to four different ethnic groups. A unique dataset is used that includes all individuals who graduated with a first degree from universities and colleges in Israel between the years 1995 and 2008 and which tracks them for...
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