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Ethnic persistence, assimilation and risk proclivity

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramons, Konstantinos - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-23

This paper investigates whether immigrants adapt to the attitudes of the majority population in the host country by focusing on the effect of ethnic persistence and assimilation on individual risk proclivity. Employing information from a unique representative German survey, we find that...

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The earnings of immigrants and the quality adjustment of immigrant human capital

Sharaf, Mesbah - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-18

The quality dimension of immigrant human capital has received little attention in the economic assimilation literature. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how human capital acquired in different source countries may be adjusted according to its quality in the Canadian labor market....

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Skilled migration and the transfer of institutional norms

Beine, Michel; Sekkat, Khalid - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-19

We examine two impacts of international emigration on the evolution of the institutions in the origin countries. The … first impact concerns the influence of emigration per se (i.e. people who left the country can voice more or less from … emigration is considered. The main conclusions are robust to alternative econometric methods and to the use of subsamples …

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Does the public sector discriminate against women? : occupational segregation prior to privatization in Egypt

Said, Mona - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 2, pp. 185-201

This paper utilizes a joint (ordered probit) occupational attainment and wage determination model to examine the channels through which occupational segregation and pay discrimination affect the overall gender wage gap in different sectors of ownership in Egypt. Using a large data set drawn from...

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A cohort analysis of the income distribution in Chile

Sapelli, Claudio - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 223-242

In this paper we look at the income distribution by cohort in Chile. We construct a synthetic panel from cross section surveys and estimate the income distribution for cohorts born between 1902 and 1978. We then decompose the evolution of these distributions into age, year and cohort effects....

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Good workers for good jobs : improving education and workforce systems in the US

Holzer, Harry J. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-19

Stagnant earnings and growing inequality in the US labor market reflect both a slowdown in the growth of worker skills and the growing matching of good-paying jobs to skilled workers. Improving the ties between colleges, workforce institutions, and employers would help more workers gain the...

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Optimal work effort, income and wage

Todorova, Tamara - In: Advances in management & applied economics 2 (2012) 1, pp. 121-137

We study work effort with its various determinants such as the educational level of the worker, the minimum or start-up salary as well as the initial endowment of the worker. By means of optimization we find that optimal work effort depends directly on the initial income available to the worker,...

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Higher education externalities in Egyptian labor markets

Nazier, Hanan - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 2, pp. 193-217

Augmenting a Mincerian earnings function with governorate level data, this paper estimated the external return to higher education for individuals in Egypt in 2010. The results suggested that these externalities are negative and exist only for female workers, while for males these externalities...

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Gender differences in earnings and labor supply in early career : evidence from Kosovo’s school-to-work transition survey

Pastore, Francesco; Sattar, Sarosh; Tiongson, Erwin R. - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2 (2013), pp. 1-34

Very little is known about gender wage disparities in Kosovo and, to date, nothing is known about how such wage disparities evolve over time, particularly during the first few years spent by young workers in the labor market. More generally, not much is known about gender wage gaps in early...

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Multiculturalism versus assimilation : attitudes towards immigrants in Western countries

Vani, Borooah K.; John, Mangan - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 2 (2009) 2, pp. 33-50

A long standing area of debate in Western countries is that of the appropriate philosophy for facilitating large scale immigration; should immigrants preserve their traditions and culture while living in the host country (integration/multiculturalism) or should they assimilate themselves into...

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