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The relative labour market performance of former international students : evidence from the Canadian National Graduates Survey
Chen, Zong Jia; Skuterud, Mikal - 2017
immigrants. By 2014, international students accounted for 10% of graduates from Canadian postsecondary institutions, up from 3 … Canadian-born-and-educated (CBE) and foreign-born-and-educated (FBE) counterparts. We find that FISs outperform FBE immigrants … and new immigrants without a commensurate increase in their supply. …
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The labor market returns to unobserved skills : evidence from a gender quota
Moeeni, Safoura; Wei, Feng - 2022
We estimate the effects of unobserved skills on labor market outcomes by investigating a change in the distribution of unobserved skills. Among people with the same levels of observed skills such as education and work experience, there are still disparities in labor market outcomes. since...
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The gender wage gap in Myanmar : adding insult to injury?
Hansen, Henrik; Rand, John; Ngu Wah Win - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012817345
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GVC involvement and the gender wage gap : micro-evidence for European countries
Nikulin, Dagmara; Wolszczak-Derlacz, Joanna - 2019 - This version: August 2019
discrimination among European employees. The results indicate that wages of workers employed in sectors more involved in GVC are …
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The impact of gender wage gap on sectoral economic growth : cross-country approach
Wolszczak-Derlacz, Joanna - 2013
We propose an empirical analysis of testing the relationship between gender wage gap and economic growth. The study takes into account 12 manufacturing sectors in 18 OECD countries for the period between 1970 and 2005.We use industrial statistics (EU KLEMS, 2008) on female and male wages that...
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Statistical discrimination in a search equilibrium model: racial wage and employment disparities in the US
Decreuse, Bruno; Tarasonis, Linas - 2020
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Nonparametric instrumental variable methods for dynamic treatment evaluation
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Bonev, Petyo; Mammen, Enno - 2016
abolished the dependence of unemployment insurance benefits on the elapsed unemployment duration and simultaneously introduced … unemployment duration is positive and significant. Neglecting selectivity leads to an underestimation of the effects in absolute …
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Unemployment, marginal attachment and labor force participation in Canada and the United States
Jones, Stephen R. G.; Riddell, William Craig - 2017
We analyze changes in unemployment, marginal labor force attachment and participation in Canada and the U.S. Using two … complementary decompositions, we show the importance for the comparative evolution of aggregate unemployment of changes in the … marginally attached displaying behavior lying between unemployment and non-attachment. The three non-employment states are …
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Gender differences in STEM persistence after graduation
Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2022
Much attention is focused on finding ways to encourage females to study STEM in school and college but what actually happens once women complete a STEM degree? We use the UK Quarterly Labour Force Survey to trace out gender differences in STEM persistence over the career. We find a continuous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013209726
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Salary and reservation wage gender gaps in Polish academia
Kaszubowski, Mariusz; Wolszczak-Derlacz, Joanna - 2014
By using unique web-survey data, this paper assesses the gender wage gap in Polish academia. We conduct a detailed study of the gender gap considering monthly salaries and reservation wages. The study involves regression analysis, Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition of mean wage differentials and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011802115