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Differences in employment outcomes for college town stayers and leavers
Winters, John V. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-22
New college graduates must choose whether to stay in the geographic area where they completed their degree or move to a new location to begin their careers. This paper classifies 41 U.S. metropolitan areas as “college towns” and investigates differences in employment outcomes between college...
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Estimation of regional wage series in Chile
Dresdner, Jorge; Sanhueza, Carlos - In: Estudios de economía 36 (2009) 2, pp. 243-261
source, it is preferable to use the corrected series presented in this paper. -- regional wages ; estimation ; truncation …
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The role of location in evaluating racial wage disparity
Black, Dan A.; Kolesnikova, Natalia; Sander, Seth G.; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2 (2013), pp. 1-18
A standard object of empirical analysis in labor economics is a modified Mincer wage function in which an individual’s log wage is a function of education, experience, and race. We analyze this approach in a context where individuals live and work in different locations (thus facing different...
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Arbeitsmigration in Zentralasien: Kinder profitieren nicht von Geldüberweisungen
Kröger, Antje Elisabeth - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 6, pp. 11-17
In den zentralasiatischen Ländern Kirgistan und Tadschikistan müssen viele Erwachsene ihre Familien zeitweilig verlassen, um sich in anderen Regionen oder Ländern einen Arbeitsplatz zu suchen. Die Geldüberweisungen an die Familien stellen in beiden Ländern einen erheblichen wirtschaftlichen...
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Primum vivere ... : industrial change, job destruction and the geographical distribution of unemployment
Pastore, Francesco - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 1 (2012), pp. 1-15
This paper aims to provide a frame of mind to understand the link between structural change and regional unemployment, and, based on it, to survey the most recent literature. An overly optimistic view on the ability of the adjustment mechanism to generate convergence in local unemployment rates...
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Business cycle and spillover effects on pre-retirement behavior in Spain
Jimenez-Martin, Sergi; Castello, Judit - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-23
We test the hypothesis that exits from the labor market for pre-retirement individuals in Spain respond mainly to economic conditions and to incentives by analyzing two effects. First, we test the existence of spillover effects from a reform of the old-age pension system on transitions from...
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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
, France might be classed as essentially assimilationist and Britain as multi-cultural, whereas the Netherlands and Germany …
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Menschenhandel : Deutschland beim Opferschutz nur Mittelmaß
Cho, Seo-young - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 39, pp. 3-12
hingegen in vielen Ländern eine Schwachstelle. Deutschland erfüllt im internationalen Vergleich hohe Standards bei der … the recent years, Germany also neglects recognizing victims and granting them amnesty. In 2011, the protection policy of … Germany is evaluated as 'modest (score 3)' only, while the levels of its prosecution and prevention policies are ranked as …
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Immigrant over- and under-education : the role of home country labour market experience
Piracha Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Vadean, Florin - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-21
work experience, particularly that of education-occupation mismatch prior to migration.We show that type of work experience … in Australia by 62 percent. -- immigration ; education-occupation mismatch ; sample selection …
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Human capital transmission and the earnings of second-generation immigrants in Sweden
Hammarstedt, Mats; Palme, Mårten - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-23
We compare the earnings and the intergenerational earnings mobility of immigrants with natives in Sweden. We find an overall convergence in average earnings between immigrants and natives across generations. This convergence hides a divergence in average earnings between groups of immigrants...
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