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This study tests four "light touch" interventions in the language used in job posts of male- dominated occupations to … language. We find that language matters, and men and women value information and inclusive language in job advertisements … the job ad, and find that when the inclusive language in the ad is subtle, the effect of having more words is very …
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This study explores sex differences in language and socio-emotional skills. It focuses on children 7 months old to 6 … scored at -0.13 standard deviations (SD) in language in the distribution of females. In addition, males scored at -0.20 SD in …
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This paper examines whether language classes raises refugees' language proficiency and improves their socio …-economic integration. Our identification strategy leverages the opening, closing, and gradual expansion of local language training centers … in Denmark, as well as the quasi-random assignment of the refugees to locations with varying proximity to a language …
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This paper investigates how the job search outcomes of displaced migrants are affected by the labor market outcomes of …
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This paper analyses occupational trajectories of refugees from their last job in the home country to their first and current jobs in Austria and the role of co-ethnic and Austrian social networks in job search, using data from a large-scale survey of recognised refugees from Syria, Afghanistan,...
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How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and estimate a search and matching model for workers with a VET degree. Workers differ in interpersonal, cognitive and manual skills, while firms require and value different...
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High-tenure workers who lose their jobs experience a large and prolonged fall in wages and earnings. The aim of this paper is to understand and quantify the forces behind this empirical regularity. We propose a structural model of the labor market with heterogeneous firms, on-the-job search and...
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