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Immigrant Adjustment in France and Impacts on the Natives

Constant, Amelie F. - 2003

The purpose of this paper is to study the immigrant performance in France and the impacts on the natives by drawing on research findings from the existing academic literature on the economics of French migration. The research questions are: how do immigrants fare with respect to wages,...

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Stochastic Labour Market Shocks, Labour Market Programmes, and Human Capital Formation : A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis

Lechner, Michael; Vazquez-Alvarez, R. - 2007

This paper develops a life-cycle model of labour supply that captures endogenous human capital formation allowing for individual's heterogeneous responses to stochastic labour market shocks. The shocks determines conditions in the labour market and sort individuals into three labour market...

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Who works for whom? : worker sorting in a model of entrepreneurship with heterogeneous labor markets

Dinlersoz, Emin Murat; Hyatt, Henry R.; Janicki, Hubert P. - 2016

Young and small firms are typically matched with younger and nonemployed individuals, and they provide these workers with lower earnings compared to other firms. To explore the mechanisms behind these facts, a dynamic model of entrepreneurship is introduced, where individuals can choose not to...

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Skill heterogeneity and market labour income inequality

Medrano Adán, Luís Ángel; Salas-Fumás, Vicente; … - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 15 (2024) 2, pp. 203-234

market labour income inequality. However, an extended conclusion from empirical research is that cross-country variations in … dispersion of skill explain little of the variation in income inequality. This paper identifies factors related to production and … paper can explain why the US and Sweden have similar labour productivity, but income inequality is higher in the US than in …

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An unfulfilled promise? : higher education quality and professional underemployment in Peru

Yamada, Gustavo; Lavado, Pablo; Martínez, Joan J. - 2015

Despite the high growth of the Peruvian economy during the last decade, college graduates are facing increasing difficulties to find occupations that match their higher educational background, skills and educational investments. This scenario is embodied in the "professional underemployment"...

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Rejuvenating Greece's labour market to generate more and higher-quality jobs

Bulman, Tim - 2020

Greece’s labour market entered the COVID-19 shock following several years of sustained employment growth and with wages picking up. Unemployment remained high and employment rates were low, especially among women, the young and older workers. The shock led to a sharp fall in labour force...

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The role of labour market expectations and admission probabilities in students' application decisions on higher education : the case of Hungary

Varga, Júlia - 2003

This paper analyses the effects of labour market expectations and admission probabilities on students' application strategies to higher education. The starting hypothesis of this study is that students consider the expected utility of their choices, a function of expected net lifetime earnings...

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The economic outcomes of an ethnic minority : the role of barriers

Ḳasir, Nitsa; Yashiv, Eran - 2020

The Arab population in Israel constitutes an ethnic minority, at around 20% of the population. The economy of this minority is characterized by inferior outcomes relative to the Jewish majority by all indicators, including employment, wages, occupational status, social welfare, education, and...

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Inequality and specialization: the growth of low-skill service jobs in the United States

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - 2009

After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high-skill occupations, the shape of U.S. earnings and job growth sharply polarized in the 1990s. Employment shares and relative earnings rose in both low and high-skill jobs, leading to a...

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The growth of low skill service jobs and the polarization of the US labor market

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - 2012

We offer an integrated explanation and empirical analysis of the polarization of U.S. employment and wages between 1980 and 2005, and the concurrent growth of low skill service occupations. We attribute polarization to the interaction between consumer preferences, which favor variety over...

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