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Endogenous technology, matching, and labor unions: Does low-skilled immigration affect the technological alignment of the host country?
Cords, Dario - 2017
In recent years, Germany and other European countries face the strongest immigration flow in their history. Experts … arrivals. This paper investigates the impact of low-skilled immigration on a unionized economy with labor market frictions. It … especially examines how immigration affects the technology choice of firms and, thereby, the technological alignment of the host …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011712332
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Immigrant Adjustment in Israel: Literacy and Fluency in Hebrew and Earnings
Chiswick, Barry R.; Repetto, Gaston - 2000
family structure also matter. Earnings are found to increase with level of schooling, duration in Israel, pre-immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262386
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Exploring the Causes of Frictional Wage Dispersion
Tjaden, Volker; Wellschmied, Felix - 2011
's key parameters are calibrated using micro data on employment mobility and wages from the Survey of Income and Program …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293374
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Exploring the causes of frictional wage dispersion
Tjaden, Volker; Wellschmied, Felix - 2012
Standard search models are unreliable for structural inference of the underlying sources of wage inequality because they are inconsistent with observed residual wage dispersion. We address this issue by modeling skill development and duration dependence in unemployment benefits in a random on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282170
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The Effect of Health on Income: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Commuting Accidents
Halla, Martin; Zweimüller, Martina - 2011
persistent effect on subsequent employment and income. After initial periods with a higher incidence of sick leave, treated … treated workers, who manage to stay in employment, incur persistent income losses. The effects are stronger for sub-groups of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294889
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Immigration and Heterogeneous Labor in Western Germany: A Labor Market Classification Based on Nonparametric Estimation
Puhani, Patrick A.; Frölich, Markus - 2002
markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration … recommended for immigration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298120
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Immigration and Heterogeneous Labor in Western Germany: A Labor Market Classification Based on Nonparametric Estimation
Frölich, Markus; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2002
markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration … recommended for immigration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261523
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Immigrant wages in the Spanish labour market: does the origin of human capital matter?
Sanromá, Esteban; Ramos, Raúl; Simón, Hipólito - 2009
The aim of this paper is to analyse the role played by the different components of human capital in the wage determination of recent immigrants within the Spanish labour market. Using microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes 2007, the paper examines returns to human capital of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269038
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Doctors Without Borders: The Returns to an Occupational License for Soviet Immigrant Physicians in Israel
Kugler, Adriana D.; Sauer, Robert M. - 2002
Re-licensing requirements for professionals that move across borders are widespread. In this paper, we measure the returns to an occupational license using novel data on Soviet trained physicians that immigrated to Israel. An immigrant re-training assignment rule used by the Israel Ministry of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262353
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Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel
Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - 2001
There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. However, in some countries where labor markets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262556