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Skills, economic crises and labour market
Dasgupta, Kabir; Plum, Alexander - 2022
Do higher skills help mitigate the negative impact of economic crises? We study the effect of two major economic setbacks–the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) in 2007-09 and the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020–on wage progression for New Zealanders with different skill levels. For our analysis, we...
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Wage inequality, skill inequality, and employment : evidence from PIAAC
Jovicic, Sonja - 2015
This paper investigates how much of the difference in wage distributions is related to differences in skill distributions and whether a compressed wage distribution is associated with high unemployment across core OECD countries. Some countries that have more compressed (dispersed) wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335002
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International migration and the economics of language
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2014
acquiring destination language proficiency, with an emphasis on labor market outcomes, and in particular earnings. Factors that …
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Should i stay or should i go? : an investigation of graduate regional mobility in the UK and its impact upon early career earnings
Kidd, Michael P.; O'Leary, Nigel; Sloane, Peter J. - 2014
clear finding is that mobility is associated with superior earnings outcomes, but principally through mobility as it relates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010381872
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Qualifications and earnings in Britain : how reliable are conventional OLS estimates of the returns to education?
Dearden, Lorraine - 1999 - Revised version
The paper estimates the returns to education for a cohort of individuals born in Britain in March 1958 who have been followed since birth until the age of 33. The data used has a wealth of information on family background including parental education, social class and interest shown in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011538431
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The effects of advanced degrees on the wage rates, hours, earnings and job satisfaction of women and men
Altonji, Joseph G.; Humphries, John Eric; Zhong, Ling - 2022
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012805387
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Wage inequality, skill inequality, and employment : evidence and policy lessons from PIAAC
Jovicic, Sonja - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 5 (2016) 21, pp. 1-26
This paper investigates international differences in wage inequality and skills and whether a compressed wage distribution is associated with high unemployment across core OECD countries. Wage dispersion and wage structure are widely debated among policymakers; compressed wage structure is often...
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Chapter 5. International Migration and the Economics of Language
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 211-269). 2015
market consequences of that proficiency, as expressed in their earnings. Immigrants tend to take language differences across … other variables, and Economic incentives, including the effects of higher earnings and a longer expected duration of … residence. This model is shown to be robust for the several immigrant receiving countries studied. Earnings among immigrants are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025478
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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - 2000
– Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that … earnings. …
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Labour market mismatch among UK graduates : an analysis using REFLEX data
McGuinness, Séamus; Sloane, Peter J. - 2009
There is much disagreement in the literature over the extent to which graduates are mismatched in the labour market and the reasons for this. In this paper we utilise the Flexible Professional in the Knowledge Society (REFLEX) data set to cast light on these issues, based on data for UK...
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