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Limits to wage growth : understanding the wage divergence between immigrants and natives
Jain, Apoorva; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2017
This study finds evidence of wage divergence between immigrants and natives in Germany using a country-wide household panel from 1984 to 2014. We incorporate the possibility of wage divergence into a two-period model of economic assimilation by modeling the differences in the efficiency of human...
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Chapter 6 Educational Wage Premiums and the U.S. Income Distribution: A Survey
Deere, Donald R.; Vesovic, Jelena - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 1, (pp. 255-306). 2006
1950s/early 1960s greatly expanded the research on education and income and shifted the focus to wages. The human capital … estimating the returns to education and experience. Recent analyses of education and wages have built on this foundation and have …
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Wage and Occupational Assimilation by Skill Level
Alcobendas, Miguel - 2012
While much of the literature on immigrants' assimilation has focused on countries with a large tradition of receiving immigrants and with flexible labor markets, very little is known on how immigrants adjust to other types of host economies. With its severe dual labor market, and an...
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The labour market effect of immigration : accounting for effective immigrant work experience in New Zealand
Tse, Michael M. H.; Maani, Sholeh A. - 2016
This guide, updated for the 2016-17 job market season, describes the U.S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It provides data, reports findings from published papers, describes practical details, and includes links to online...
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Does better pre-migration performance accelerate immigrants' wage assimilation? : conference paper
Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Toomet, Ott; Hochfellner, … - 2013
This paper analyzes wage assimilation of ethnic German immigrants to Germany. We use unique administrative data that include a standardized measure of immigrants' pre-migration wage based on occupation, industry, tenure, qualification, and the German wage structure. We find that immigrants...
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Labor market incorporation of immigrants in Japan and the United States : a comparative analysis
Cornelius, Wayne A.; Tsuda, Takeyuki - 2002
achieved human capital do not significantly influence immigrant wages in Hamamatsu. Instead, ascribed human capital (e ….g., gender, ethnicity) has a much greater impact on immigrant wages in Japan than in the United States. Although the use of … social networks by immigrants to find jobs has a significant impact on wages in both countries, the effect is positive in …
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Labor market incorporation of immigrants in Japan and the United States : a comparative analysis
Cornelius, Wayne A.; Tsuda, Takeyuki - 2002
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How much does a year off cost? : estimating the wage effects of employment breaks and part-time periods
Beblo, Miriam - 2000
Discontinuities in the employment profile are supposed to cause wage cuts since they imply an interruption in the accumulation of human capital as well as a depreciation of the human capital stock built up in the past. In this paper, we estimate the return to effective experience, taking into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428383
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How much does a year off cost? : estimating the wage effects of employment breaks and part-time periods
Beblo, Miriam; Wolf, Elke - 2000
Discontinuities in the employment profile are supposed to cause wage cuts since they imply an interruption in the accumulation of human capital as well as a depreciation of the human capital stock built up in the past. In this paper, we estimate the return to effective experience, taking into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445624
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Do Pimples Pay? Acne, Human Capital, and the Labor Market
Mialon, Hugo M. - 2018
We use data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health to investigate the association between having acne in middle to high school and subsequent educational and labor market outcomes. We find that having acne is strongly positively associated with overall grade point...
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