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proficiency, and the effect of language on earnings and employment probabilities of non-white immigrants. Our results show that … language acquisition, employment probabilities, as well as earnings differ widely across non-white immigrants, according to … their ethnic origin. Language has a strong and positive effects on employment probabilities. Furthermore, lack of English …
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, employment and wages for Roma and non-Roma. LIML methods are employed to control for endogenous schooling and two sources of … extent of discrimination. The key results are that: the employment returns to education are lower for Roma than for non …
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Previous studies report that adult height has significant associations with wages even controlling for schooling. But schooling and height are imperfect measures of adult cognitive skills (“brains”) and strength (“brawn”); further they are not exogenous. Analysis of rich Guatemalan...
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limited English proficiency (LEP) affects wages and employment opportunities for Hispanic workers in the United States. I …
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In Sweden, children typically start compulsary school the year they turn seven. Individuals born just before or just after the new year, have about the same date of birth but start school att different ages. We exploit this source of exogenous variation, to identify the effects of age at school...
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-up. Our empirical findings document significant impacts on the formality of employment, particularly for men, and impacts for … are sustained and growing over time. There are no impacts on average employment, which is consistent with the low …
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This paper examines the relationship between individuals' skills and labor market outcomes for the working-age population of Colombia's urban areas. Using a 2012 unique household survey, the paper finds that cognitive skills (aptitudes to perform mental tasks such as comprehension or reasoning)...
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), allowing for a more accurate measure of formal employment. It also measures whether socioemotional skills of beneficiaries … improved with program participation. The evaluation finds a high long term positive impact of Projoven on formal employment. It … also finds certain heterogeneity of program impacts across subpopulations. Impacts on formal employment vary depending on …
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We use information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and supplementary data sources to examine how cognitive performance, measured at approximately the end of secondary schooling, is related to the labor market outcomes of 20 through 50 year olds. Our estimates control...
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outcomes and non-cognitive skills. Employment rose by 21 percentage points (or approximately 33%) and the gains in earnings are …
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