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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
offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It provides data, reports findings from published papers, describes …
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The costs of job loss and task usage
Kauhanen, Antti; Riukula, Krista - 2019
This study examines the degree to which the effects of job loss depend on task usage and task distance to other jobs. We use linked employer-employee data and representative survey data on task usage and plant closures to identify individuals who have lost their jobs involuntarily. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012164247
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From the cradle to the grave : the effect of family background on the career path of Italian men
Raitano, Michele; Vona, Francesco - 2015
that an additional year of parental education increases sons' weekly wages by 11.7% after twenty years of experience and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317905
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Immigrant selection systems and occupational outcomes of international medical graduates in Canada and the United States
McDonald, James Ted; Warman, Casey; Worswick, Christopher - 2011
We analyze the process of immigrant selection and occupational outcomes of International Medical Graduates (IMGs) in the US and Canada. We extend the IMG relicensing model of Kugler and Sauer (2005) to incorporate two different approaches to immigrant selection: employer nomination systems and...
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From engineer to taxi driver? : language proficiency and the occupational skills of immigrants
Imai, Susumu; Stacey, Derek; Warman, Casey - 2018
immigrants to Canada were employed in source country occupations that typically require high levels of cognitive skills, but rely … less intently on manual skills. Following immigration, they find initial employment in occupations that require the … and manual skills, these discrepancies are larger among immigrants with limited language fluency. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130639
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The International Transferability of Immigrants' Human Capital Skills
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2007
international transferability of skills. A longer duration in the U.S., however, is associated with a lower probability of being … international transferability of their pre-immigration skills …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777266
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Ability Matching and Occupational Choice
James, Jonathan - 2011
This paper develops and estimates an individual model of occupational choice and learning that allows for correlated learning across occupation-specific abilities. As an individual learns about their occupation-specific ability in one occupation, this experience will be broadly informative about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014176997
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Earnings and Occupational Attainment : Immigrants and the Native Born
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2010
with the less-than-perfect international transferability of human capital skills. It shows that around 50 percent of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014051636
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Prior work experience and entrepreneurship : the careers of young entrepreneurs
Gendron-Carrier, Nicolas - 2023
I investigate the mechanisms that drive sorting into entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial success among young individuals. I use Canadian matched owner-employeremployee data to conduct my investigation. Empirically, older entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs who have previously worked in high-wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014279932
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Skill mismatch and learning-by-doing : theory and evidence from time allocation on tasks
Storm, Eduard - 2023
skills and is associated with a return of up to 2-3% with each year of experience. Third, gains from task-based learning are … job-specific skills on wage growth and job mobility. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014304206