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The effects of immigration on wages: An application of the structural skill-cell approach
Gerfin, Michael; Kaiser, Boris - 2010
This paper investigates how recent immigration inflows from 2002 to 2008 have affected wages in Switzerland. This … wages using the actual immigration inflows from 2002 to 2008. For the long run, the simulations produce some notable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316069
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The Effects of Immigration on Wages: An Application of the Structural Skill-Cell Approach
Gerfin, Michael; Kaiser, Boris - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 146 (2010) 4, pp. 709-739
This paper investigates how recent immigration inflows from 2002 to 2008 have affected wages in Switzerland. This … on domestic wages using the actual immigration inflows from 2002 to 2008. For the long run, the simulations produce some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011933251
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Why Do We Ignore the Risk in Schooling Decisions?
Hartog, Joop; Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2014
While uncertainty abounds in almost any decision on investment in schooling, it is mostly ignored in research and virtually absent in labour economics text books. This paper documents the scope for risk, discusses the tough disentanglement of heterogeneity and risk, surveys the analytical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352219
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Brain drain, remittances, and fertility
Marchiori, Luca; Pieretti, Patrice; Zou, Benteng - 2008
This paper analyzes the effects of skilled migration and remittances on fertility decisions at origin. We develop an overlapping generations model which accounts for endogenous fertility and education. Parents choose the number of children they want to raise and decide upon how many children...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272622
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Education in the East, Emigrating to the West?
Kancs, d'Artis; Kielyte, Julda - 2010
This paper examines the potential impacts of East-West migration of talents on the innovative capital and hence the long-run growth prospects in Eastern sending countries. Complementing previous studies, we examine the impact of high skill migration not only on the formation of human capital,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011496105
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Unions, Work-Related Training, and Wages: Evidence for British Men
Francesconi, Marco; Booth, Alison L.; Zoega, Gylfi - 2003
coverage on work-related training and how the union-training link affects wages and wage growth for a sample of full-time men …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261935
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Do Markets Favor Women?s Human Capital More than Planners?
Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2004
Using micro data on women in the Czech Republic, we compare returns to various measures of human capital at the end of communism (1989), in mid-transition (1996) and in late/posttransition (2002). We show: dramatic increases in returns to education from 1989 to 1996 but no change from 1996 to 2002;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262135
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The Promise of Workplace Training for Non-College-Bound Youth: Theory and Evidence from German Apprenticeship
Clark, Damon; Fahr, René - 2001
This paper assesses the potential of ?workplace training? with reference to German Apprenticeship. When occupational matching is important, we derive conditions under which firms provide ?optimal? training packages. Since the German system broadly meets these conditions, we evaluate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262583
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Who Pays for General Training? New Evidence for British Men and Women
Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2002
forms of work-related training received by men and women over the period 1998-2000, and to estimate their impact on wages … estimate the impact of training – controlling for its financing method – on wages levels and wages growth. We find that … employer-financed training increases wages both in the current and future firms, with some evidence that the impact in future …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262766
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An Intra-firm perspective on wage profiles and employment of older workers with special reference to human capital and deferred compensation
Pfeifer, Christian - 2009
positive effect on entry wages and wage-tenure profiles are adjusted according to entry age. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264954