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The theory of differential overqualification, developed by Robert Frank (1978), claims that married women in smaller labor markets have a higher risk of working in jobs for which they are overqualified. This stems from the problem of dual job search for couples which is much more difficult to...
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This paper examines the relationship between immigration and over-education, taking advantage of access to rich matched … to investigate the effect of citizenship acquisition and workers' tenure on the nexus between immigration and over …
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immigrants' human capital, and under-education to favourable selection in immigration. The results show that immigrants have a … effects of under-education, or selection in immigration, are, however, twice as large as the effects of over-education, or … limited international transferability of human capital. Favourable selection in immigration appears to be less important in …
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A large body of literature shows that first-generation immigrants born in developing countries experience a higher likelihood of being overeducated than natives (i.e. immigrant overeducation). However, evidence is remarkably scarce when it comes to the overeducation of second-generation...
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A large body of literature shows that first-generation immigrants born in developing countries experience a higher likelihood of being overeducated than natives (i.e. immigrant overeducation). However, evidence is remarkably scarce when it comes to the overeducation of second-generation...
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We identify the effects of employment on Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) by collaborating with 27 large companies in … Ethiopia to randomly assign jobs to equally qualified female applicants. The job offers increase formal employment, earnings …
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We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian … show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for … by gender disparities in non-local employment, with mothers being more likely to give up non-local employment compared to …
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We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian … show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for … by gender disparities in non-local employment, with mothers being more likely to give up non-local employment compared to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013258938