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Studies of the return to education in urban China have reported that this has increased over time, and that females typically have a higher return than males. In this paper we adopt a framework provided by the over education/required education/under education literature, and the decomposition...
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This paper uses the approach in the under/over education literature to analyze the extent of matching of educational level to occupational attainment among adult native born and foreign born men in the U.S., using the 2000 Census. Overeducation is found to be more common among recent labor...
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This paper is concerned with the English language requirements (both level and importance) of occupations in the United States, as measured by the O*NET database. These scores are linked to microdata on employed adult (aged 25 to 64) males, both native born and foreign born, as reported in the...
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earnings gains associated with years of schooling derives from inter-occupational mobility. When occupation is held constant …
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This paper considers the labor market assimilation of immigrants in terms of earnings and employment (employment … analyses are performed separately by gender, and separately by whether or not the origin is an English-speaking developed … for other origins. Among women, the pattern of assimilation in earnings and employment is more positive than among their …
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This paper examines gender discrimination in the Australian graduate labour market, using data from the Graduate … is applied. A smaller gender wage gap is found for university graduates than that reported for all workers in earlier … studies. It is shown, however, that the gender wage gap widens with the age at graduation. This pattern is argued to reflect …
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This paper examines the links between gender differences in attitudes towards economic risk and the gender pay gap … risk are associated with higher earnings, and that gender differences in attitudes towards economic risk can account for a … small, though important, part of the standardized gender pay gap. …
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Using an immigrant assimilation framework, this paper develops a model of the occupational mobility of immigrants and … model generates hypotheses regarding a U-shaped pattern of occupational mobility from the "last job" in the origin, to the …
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Using an immigrant assimilation framework, this paper develops a model of the occupational mobility of immigrants and … model generates hypotheses regarding a U-shaped pattern of occupational mobility from the "last job" in the origin, to the …
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plays a role, highlighting potential shirking and moral hazard problems in paid employment. …
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