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Moving up the social ladder? : wages of first- and second-generation immigrants from developing countries
Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022
As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working-age population in the developed world, their labour market integration constitutes a key factor for fostering economic development and social cohesion. Using a granular, matched...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013461229
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Moving up the social ladder? : wages of first- and second-generation immigrants from developing countries
Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022
As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working-age population in the developed world, their labour market integration constitutes a key factor for fostering economic development and social cohesion. Using a granular, matched...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470617
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Does over-education raise productivity and wages equally? : the moderating role of workers' origin and immigrants' background
Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013163422
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Does over-education raise productivity and wages equally? : the moderating role of workers' origin and immigrants' background
Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022
We provide first evidence of the impact of over-education, among natives and immigrants, on firm-level productivity and … higher for natives than for immigrants. However, since the differential in productivity gains associated with over …-education between natives and immigrants outweighs the corresponding wage premium differential, we conclude - based on OLS and dynamic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012879761
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Does over-education raise productivity and wages equally? : the moderating role of workers' origin and immigrants' background
Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022
We provide first evidence of the impact of over-education, among natives and immigrants, on firm-level productivity and … higher for natives than for immigrants. However, since the differential in productivity gains associated with over …-education between natives and immigrants outweighs the corresponding wage premium differential, we conclude - based on OLS and dynamic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012815700
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Does over-education raise productivity and wages equally? : the moderating role of workers' origin and immigrants' background
Jacobs, Valentine; Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, François - In: Education economics 31 (2023) 6, pp. 698-724
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Does over-education raise productivity and wages equally? : the moderating role of workers' origin and immigrants' background
Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013482736
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Establishment size and the dispersion of wages : evidence from European countries
Lallemand, Thierry (contributor);  … - 2005
We investigate how the wage distribution differs among small and large establishments in four European countries. Findings show that within-establishment wage dispersion rises with size because large employers have a more diverse workforce. They also suggest that screening and monitoring costs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003257499
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Task-biased changes of employment and remuneration : the case of occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2011
Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008936432
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Educational and skills mismatches : unravelling their effects on wages across Europe
Cultrera, Loredana; Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François; … - 2022
This paper is among the firsts to investigate the impact of overeducation and overskilling on workers' wages using a unique pan-European database covering twenty-eight countries for the year 2014, namely the CEDEFOP's European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey. Overall, the results suggest a wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013163647