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The Labor Market Effects of English Language Proficiency : Communication Skills and the Occupational Choice of Childhood Immigrants to the United States
Hlavac, Marek - 2013
I examine the effect of English language proficiency on the occupational choices of childhood immigrants into the United States. In particular, I focus on the annual earnings and skills composition associated with immigrants' chosen occupations. Following Bleakley and Chin (2004; 2010), I use an...
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Land Market Restrictions, Women's Labor Force Participation and Wages
Emran, M. Shahe - 2014
can have a gender and age bias because of an ex-post asymmetry in migration costs arising from older women's comparative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049043
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What Drives the Urban Wage Premium? Evidence Along the Wage Distribution
Matano, Alessia - 2014
This paper aims at disentangling the role played by different explanations on the urban wage premium along the wage distribution. We analyze the wage dynamics of migrants from lower to higher density areas in Italy, using quantile regressions and individual data. The results show that unskilled...
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Moving Up the Social Ladder? Wages of First- and Second-Generation Immigrants from Developing Countries
Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022
As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working-age population in the developed world, their labour market integration constitutes a key factor for fostering economic development and social cohesion. Using a granular, matched...
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Time-varying agglomeration economies and aggregate wage growth
Berson, Clémence; Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Gobillon, … - 2024
We examine how agglomeration economies have influenced labour earnings in France over forty years. First, we define cities dynamically to account for their changing footprints. Our findings show that aggregate wage growth is mainly driven by growth in larger cities, rather than smaller ones or...
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Training, automation, and wages : international worker-level evidence
Falck, Oliver; Guo, Yuchen; Langer, Christina; … - 2024
Job training is widely regarded as crucial for protecting workers from automation, yet there is a lack of empirical evidence to support this belief. Using internationally harmonized data from over 90,000 workers across 37 industrialized countries, we construct an individual-level measure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015145024
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Training, automation, and wages : international worker-level evidence
Falck, Oliver; Guo, Yuchen; Langer, Christina; … - 2024
Job training is widely regarded as crucial for protecting workers from automation, yet there is a lack of empirical evidence to support this belief. Using internationally harmonized data from over 90,000 workers across 37 industrialized countries, we construct an individual-level measure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015143906
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Training, automation, and wages : international worker-level evidence
Falck, Oliver; Guo, Yuchen; Langer, Christina; … - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2024
Job training is widely regarded as crucial for protecting workers from automation, yet there is a lack of empirical evidence to support this belief. Using internationally harmonized data from over 90,000 workers across 37 industrialized countries, we construct an individual-level measure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015168457
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Migration and the Wage Curve : A Structural Approach to Measure the Wage and Employment Effects of Migration
Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J. - 2021
Based on a wage curve approach we examine the labor market effects of migration in Germany. The wage curve relies on … wage and employment effects of migration simultaneously in a general equilibrium framework. For the empirical analysis we … vocational degree. The wage and employment effects of migration are moderate: a 1 percent increase in the German labor force …
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Businesswomen in Germany and Their Performance by Ethnicity : It Pays to Be Self-Employed
Constant, Amelie - 2021
In this paper I assert that the entrepreneurial spirit can also exist in salaried jobs. I study the determinants of wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany - self-employed and salaried businesswomen - and investigate whether ethnicity is important in...
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