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A critique and reframing of personality in labour market theory: Locus of control and labour market outcomes

Trzcinski, Eileen; Holst, Elke - 2011

within the labour market could expose areas where the gendered nature of rewards by personality serves to perpetuate power …

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Interpreting Europe and US Labor Markets Differences: The Specificity of Human Capital Investments

Wasmer, Etienne - 2002

This paper suggests that in the US context, workers tend to invest in general human capital especially since they face little employment protection and low unemployment benefits, while the European model (generous benefits and higher duration of jobs) favors specific human capital investments....

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Labor Market Incorporation of Immigrants in Japan and the United States: A Comparative Analysis

Cornelius, Wayne A.; Tsuda, Takeyuki - 2002

may lose much of its explanatory power in other societies, where immigrants encounter different labor market conditions … Diego County, California, and the Japanese industrial city of Hamamatsu. In contrast to San Diego, the standard measures of … Hamamatsu, whereas it is negative in San Diego. The paper draws on data from ethnographic studies in Japan and California to …

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Is the New Immigration Really So Bad?

Card, David Edward - 2004

This paper reviews the recent evidence on U.S. immigration, focusing on two key questions: (1) Does immigration reduce the labor market opportunities of less-skilled natives? (2) Have immigrants who arrived after the 1965 Immigration Reform Act successfully assimilated? Looking across major...

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Nonparametric Bounds on the Returns to Language Skills

González, Libertad - 2004

analyze the identifying power of several weak assumptions on treatment response and selection, and stress the interactions …

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Minimum Wage Effects in the Longer Run

Neumark, David; Nizalova, Olena Y. - 2004

Exposure to minimum wages at young ages may lead to longer-run effects. Among the possible adverse longer-run effects are decreased labor market experience and accumulation of tenure, lower current labor supply because of lower wages, and diminished training and skill acquisition. Beneficial...

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