Showing 1 - 10 of 44
This paper examines the gender differential in the payoff to schooling in China. The analyses are conducted separately for rural and urban areas, and are based on a framework provided by the over education/required education/under education literature, and the decomposition developed by Chiswick...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009007488
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009519683
Research on the economic or labor market assimilation of immigrants has to date focused on the degree of improvement in their economic status with duration in the destination. This pattern has been found for all the immigrant receiving countries, time periods and data sets that have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726800
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759100
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003862888
This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation/under-education (ORU) literature are sensitive to whether the usual or reference levels of education are measured using the Realized Matches or Worker Self-Assessment methods. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003894826
This paper examines the difference between the payoffs to schooling for immigrants and the native born in Canada, using 2001 Census data. Analyses are presented for males and females. Comparisons are offered with findings for the US. The paper uses the Overeducation/Required...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900881
"This paper analyzes the effect on earnings of the matching of English language skills to occupational requirements. It uses data from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) database and a "Realized Matches" procedure to quantify expected levels of English skills in each of over 500...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003449481
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003451048
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003451049