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Immigrant Versus Natives? Displacement and Job Creation
Ozden, Caglar - 2018
The impact of immigration on native workers is driven by two countervailing forces: the degree of substitutability … suited for understanding the impact of low-skilled immigration. The instrumental variable estimates imply that the elasticity … positive effect on native wages (0.14 percent). The impact of immigration is highly heterogeneous for natives with different …
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The Effect of Immigration on Natives' School Achievement : Does Length of Stay in the Host Country Matter?
Bossavie, Laurent - 2018
Using a rich data set of primary school students, this paper estimates the effects of immigrant concentration in the …-at-migration to estimate separate spillover effects by duration of stay of immigrant classmates. To identify treatment effects, it … uses cohort-by-cohort deviations in immigrant concentration within schools combined with attractive features of the Dutch …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912335
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What Explains Prevalence of Informal Employment in European Countries : The Role of Labor Institutions, Governance, Immigrants, and Growth
Hazans, Mihails - 2017
This paper looks into institutional and other macro determinants of prevalence of informal dependent employment, as well as informal self-employment, in European countries, using European Social Survey data on work without legal contract in on 30 countries, covering years 2004-2009. Consistently...
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Training Teachers on the Job : What Works and How to Measure it
Arancibia, Violeta - 2017
A significant body of research demonstrates that teachers and the quality of their teaching are crucial components of student learning. Many teachers in resource-poor environments have limited knowledge, skills, or motivation. Some impact evaluations have shown promising results from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967941
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The Wage Effects of Immigration and Emigration
Docquier, Frédéric - 2017
and immigration relative to non-migrants …, especially when it comes to the debate on the effects of immigration on the employment and wages of natives in high …-2000, the results show the following: First, immigration had zero to small positive long-run effect on the average wages of …
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Short-Term Effects of India's Employment Guarantee Program on Labor Markets and Agricultural Productivity
Deininger, Klaus - 2018
This paper uses a large national household panel from 1999/2000 and 2007/08 to analyze the short-term effects of India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme on wages, labor supply, agricultural labor use, and productivity. The scheme prompted a 10-point wage increase and...
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Soft Skills or Hard Cash? The Impact of Training and Wage Subsidy Programs on Female Youth Employment in Jordan
Groh, Matthew - 2017
Throughout the Middle East, unemployment rates of educated youth have been persistently high and female labor force participation, low. This paper studies the impact of a randomized experiment in Jordan designed to assist female community college graduates find employment. One randomly chosen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975109
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The Role of Training Programs for Youth Employment in Nepal : Impact Evaluation Report on the Employment Fund
Chakravarty, Shubha - 2018
The youth unemployment rate is exceptionally high in developing countries. Because the quality of education is arguably one of the most important determinants of youth's labor force participation, governments worldwide have responded by creating job training and placement services programs....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936211
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The Impact of Vocational Training for the Unemployed : Experimental Evidence from Turkey
Hirshleifer, Sarojini - 2017
A randomized experiment is used to evaluate a large-scale, active labor market policy: Turkey's vocational training programs for the unemployed. A detailed follow-up survey of a large sample with low attrition enables precise estimation of treatment impacts and their heterogeneity. The average...
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Trade and Human Capital Accumulation : Evidence from U.S. Immigrants
Domeland, Dorte - 2016
This study provides empirical evidence that trade increases on-the-job human capital accumulation by estimating the effect of home country openness on estimated returns to home country experience of U.S. immigrants. The positive effect of trade on on-the-job human capital accumulation remains...
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