This paper examines the difference between the payoffs to schooling for immigrants and the native born in Canada, using … lower payoff to schooling because of the different effects under-education and over-education have on their earnings. The … immigrants' human capital, and under-education to favourable selection in immigration. The results show that immigrants have a …

payoff to schooling in the growing literature on earnings determination in China. The payoffs to actual years of schooling …This paper examines the gender differential in the payoff to schooling in China. The analyses are conducted separately … the higher payoff to schooling for females than for males. Over educated females, however, are advantaged compared with …

earnings of immigrants as compared to native workers, in particular to test whether there is any systematic variation in the … labor market performance of immigrants across gender related to duration in the destination, schooling, age at immigration …, country of origin, or country of destination. We find a significant negative effect of immigrant status on individual earnings …

explain sexual orientation differences in earnings, gay men would need to be less competitive than other men and lesbian women … data, we show that competitiveness is a significant predictor of earnings. Differences in competitiveness can account for a … significant portion of the gay earnings penalty, but cannot explain the lesbian premium. …

This paper explores the effects of a spouse's personality on earnings. We build on the growing literature spanning … economics and psychology that investigates how personality traits affect one's own individual earnings. In particular, several …) have been shown to be predictors of own earnings. To our knowledge only one paper studies the relationship between spousal …

degrees with the highest average earnings and underestimates the returns to degrees with the lowest average earnings. Second …, we decompose the impacts on earnings into effects on wage rates and effects on hours. For most degrees, the earnings …

Canada than in the US, where it predominates among the least educated. -- Immigrants ; skill ; schooling ; earnings ; rates …This paper examines the difference between the payoffs to schooling for immigrants and the native born in Canada, using … lower payoff to schooling because of the different effects under-education and over-education have on their earnings. The …

literature. We examine gender differences in labor market integration among refugees and other new immigrants who came to Germany … include recently arrived refugees (the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Sample of Refugees) and other immigrants (the IAB-SOEP Migration Sample …) in Germany, we compare the dynamics and sources of employment gender gap among refugees and other immigrants. The results …

literature, we find that immigrants in Italy are less likely to be self-employed. The negative gap is confirmed when propensity …