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Migration and Regional Sorting of Skills
Tano, Sofia - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2014
) from comprehensive school affects the probability of migration among university graduates. The econometric analysis applies …
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Literacy and the Migrant-Native Wage Gap
Himmler, Oliver; Jaeckle, Robert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Being able to read and write is one of the most important skills in modern economies. Literacy frequently is a prerequisite for employment and its relevance for productivity and wages is magnified by the fact that it is only through literacy that many other skills become usable. More so than for...
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Age at Migration, Language Proficiency and Socio-economic Outcomes: Evidence from Australia
Islam, Asadul; Guven, Cahit - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2013
significant positive effect on wages and promotions among adults who immigrated to Australia as children. English proficiency …
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China's Labour Market in Transition: Job Creation, Migration and Regulation
Herd, Richard; Koen, Vincent; Reutersward, Anders - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
Over the past decade, the share of jobs not controlled by the state has increased considerably, whilst employment in agriculture has declined, against the backdrop of ongoing urbanisation. Over 200 million people have been drawn into urban areas through official or unofficial migration, despite...
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Wage Differentials by Field of Study – The Case of German University Graduates
Görlitz, Katja; Grave, Barbara S. - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2012
Using data on German university graduates, this paper analyzes wage differentials by field of study at labor market … entry and five to six years later. At both points in time, graduates from Arts and Humanities have lower average monthly … largely by different job and firm characteristics of graduates rather than individual or study-related characteristics. We …
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Occupational Pattern, Wage Rates and Earning Disparities in India: A Decomposition Analysis
MUKHERJEE, DIPA; MAJUMDER, RAJARSHI - In: Indian Economic Review 46 (2011) 1, pp. 131-152
discrimination during entry and wage setting, and that by endowment in explaining the occupational and earning disparities have been … Discrimination and Endowment gaps. …
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Gender Discrimination in the Australian Graduate Labour Market
Li, Ian W.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
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 … earnings equation on the standardised gender pay gap. Female graduates are less likely to be overeducated, compared to male …
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Education, experience and dynamic urban wage premium
Carlsen, Fredrik; Rattso, Jorn; Stokke, Hildegunn E. - Institutt for Samfunnsøkonomi, Norges … - 2013
We analyze static and dynamic agglomeration effects across education groups. The data are based on administrative registers covering all full time workers in the private sector of Norway during 2001-2010, about 6.5 million worker-year observations, including place and sector of work experience...
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Disentangling Labor Supply and Demand Shifts Using Spatial Wage Dispersion: The Case of Oil Price Shocks
Kehrig, Matthias; Vincent, Nicolas - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2013
We separate changes in labor supply and demand through changes in higher-order moments of the wage distribution. We illustrate this idea in a study of the effects of oil price shocks, which generate a predictable labor demand adjustment across regions. Empirically, oil price shocks decrease...
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HUMAN CAPITAL TRAPS? ENCLAVE EFFECTS USING LINKED EMPLOYER-HOUSEHOLD DATA
Sousa, Liliana D. - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2013
This study uses linked employer-household data to measure the impact of immigrant social networks, as identified via neighborhood and workplace affiliation, on immigrant earnings. Though ethnic enclaves can provide economic opportunities through job creation and job matching, they can also...
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