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Perceptions of employability among London's low-paid : "self-determination" or ethnicity?
Croucher, Richard; Ramakrishnan, Sumeetra; Rizov, Marian; … - 2018
We investigate how ethnicity, gender and other characteristics affect low-paid workers' perceptions of their employability in London's labour market, examining self-efficacy, ethnic and dual labour market theories. We find that perceptions vary considerably, both between genders and ethnicities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011933689
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Human capital, labour market outcomes, and horizontal inequality in Guatemala
Canelas, Carla; Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2017
outcomes, and a broad trend towards greater equality. Earnings gaps have been reduced by, among other factors, improved …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635687
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Access to and returns from unpaid graduate internships
Holford, Angus - 2017
We use the Destination of Leavers from Higher Education Survey (DLHE) to estimate the socio-economic gradient in access to unpaid internships among English and Welsh graduates six months after completing their first degree, and the return to this internship experience 3 years later in terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664271
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Access to and returns from unpaid graduate internships
Holford, Angus - 2017
We use the Destination of Leavers from Higher Education Survey (DLHE) to estimate the socio-economic gradient in access to unpaid internships among English and Welsh graduates six months after completing their first degree, and the return to this internship experience 3 years later in terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011672684
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Cognitive, non-cognitive skills and gender wage gaps : evidence from linked employer-employee data in Bangladesh
Nordman, Christophe J.; Sarr, Leopold R.; Sharma, Smriti - 2015
We use a first-hand linked employer-employee dataset representing the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender wage gaps by the inclusion of measures of cognitive skills and personality traits. Our results show that while cognitive skills are important in determining mean wages, personality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288539
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009690559
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The Sexual Orientation Wage Gap : The Role of Occupational Sorting, Human Capital, and Discrimination
Antecol, Heather - 2007
Using data from the 2000 U.S. Census, we document and explore three alternative explanations for the sexual orientation wage gap: occupational sorting, human capital differences, and discrimination. We find lesbian women earn more than their heterosexual counterparts irrespective of marital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776337
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The Part-Time Wage Penalty in European Countries : How Large is it for Men?
O'Dorchai, Sile - 2007
-employee data (i.e., the 1995 European Structure of Earnings Survey) to investigate the magnitude and sources of the part-time wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777513
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Human Capital and Black-White Earnings Gaps, 1996–2017
Thompson, Owen - 2021
This paper estimates the contribution of human capital to the Black-white earnings gap in three separate samples of men … capital. There are three main findings. First, the magnitude of reductions in the Black-white earnings gap that occur after …-white earnings disparities. Second, these increases are almost entirely due to growth in the returns to human capital, which magnify …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013238291
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Human capital and Black-white earnings gaps, 1996-2017
Thompson, Owen - 2021
This paper estimates the contribution of human capital to the Black-white earnings gap in three separate samples of men … capital. There are three main findings. First, the magnitude of reductions in the Black-white earnings gap that occur after …-white earnings disparities. Second, these increases are almost entirely due to growth in the returns to human capital, which magnify …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012498277