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Youth Labour Market Performance in Spain and its Determinants: A Micro-Level Perspective
Dolado, Juan J.; Jansen, Marcel; Felgueroso, Florentino; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
This paper provides both descriptive and empirical evidence about the main youth labour market problems in Spain. Using the experiences of other EU economies as a benchmark, we document the performance of Spain as regards a wide set of youth labour market dimensions. These include employment and...
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Do Chinese Employers Avoid Hiring Overqualified Workers? Evidence from an Internet Job Board
Shen, Kailing; Kuhn, Peter J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Can having more education than a job requires reduce one's chances of being offered the job? We study this question in a sample of applications to jobs that are posted on an urban Chinese website. We find that being overqualified in this way does not reduce the success rates of...
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THE ROLE OF SOCIAL CAPITAL IN AVOIDING OVER-EDUCATION (English version)
BALINT, BLANKA - In: Revista Romana de Sociologie 1-2 (2013), pp. 101-126
In post-socialist countries, overqualification is a current and relevant issue, but despite its importance, this topic … overqualification. In this study, I will attempt an investigation of this hypothesis. The analysis of the issue was performed on the …. Overqualification was determined by comparing the educational training acquired with the occupation performed. Although the importance …
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Job Contact Networks and the Ethnic Minorities
Battu, Harminder; Seaman, Paul T; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
Using data from the UK Quarterly Labour Force Survey, this paper examines the job finding methods of different ethnic groups in the UK. Our empirical findings suggest that, though personal networks are a popular method of finding a job for the ethnic minorities, the foreign born and those who...
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Job Contact Networks and the Ethnic Minorities
Battu, Harminder; Seaman, Paul T; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
This paper examines the job finding methods of different ethnic groups in the UK. The theoretical framework shows that less-assimilated ethnic unemployed workers are more likely to use their friends and family as their main method of search but they have less chance of finding a job using this...
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Une théorie des relations sociales emploi et inégalité
Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
problem of gender gap as well as employment of migrants …
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Identity, Nostalgia and Happiness among Migrants: The Case of the Kōshien High School Baseball Tournament in Japan
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
residents of large cities and not for other areas. (3) For migrants who had moved from rural to urban areas, the effect of their … significant in cases where the cultural climate of the host area differed from that of the migrant’s home area. The findings of … high school baseball on happiness. Further, nostalgia for home influences migrants’ happiness, and this influence is …
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Healthcare access for migrants in China : A new frontier
Milcent, Carine - HAL - 2010
How can healthcare access for Chinese migrants be improved? Migrant workers face two types of healthcare …
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Zimbabwean Migrant Entrepreneurs in Kempton Park and Tembisa, Johannesburg: Challenges and Opportunities
Hungwe, Chipo - In: Journal of Enterprising Culture (JEC) 22 (2014) 03, pp. 349-373
2012. It analyses the structure of opportunity available to these entrepreneurs and argues that although migrants can …. These migrants have a short history in self-employment and are the first to establish such economic ventures in their …
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Are we wasting our talent? Overqualification and overskilling among PhD graduates
Paolo, Antonio Di; Mañé, Ferran - Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP) - 2014
Drawing on a very rich data set from a recent cohort of PhD graduates, we examine the correlates and consequences of qualification and skills mismatch. We show that job characteristics such as the economic sector and the main activity at work play a fundamental direct role in explaining the...
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