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Urban wage premium increasing with education level : identification of agglomeration effects for Norway
Carlsen, Fredrik; Rattsø, Jørn; Stokke, Hildegunn Ekroll - 2012 - First draft: February 15, 2012
the agglomeration effect is hard to identify. Recent advances make use of individual level data to separate out sorting … population in Norway with complete description of their education level. The data allow for estimation of the agglomeration … effect for different education groups and the results show that agglomeration economies are increasing with education level …
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The returns to occupational foreign language use : evidence from Germany
Heidland, Tobias - 2013
This paper analyses the wage premia associated with workers' occupational use of foreign languages in Germany. After eliminating time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity and other confounding factors, sizable returns of about 10 percent to applying fluent English skills are found. Returns to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010192306
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Limits to wage growth : understanding the wage divergence between immigrants and natives
Jain, Apoorva; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2017
to established ethnic networks, and acquired more years of pre-migration schooling. Using a doubly robust treatment … effect estimator and the IV method, the study finds that the endogenous post-migration education in the host country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704320
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Explaining the male native-immigrant employment gap in Sweden : the role of human capital and migrant categories
Bevelander, Pieter; Luik, Marc-André; Emilsson, Henrik - 2016
Despite having one of the most celebrated labor market integration policies, the native-immigrant employment gap in Sweden is one of the largest among the OECD countries. In this study, we use unique Swedish register data to try to explain the employment gap between male immigrants and natives....
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Urban Governance Structure and Wage Disparities across US Metropolitan Areas
Ferranna, Licia - 2016
-2000. Agglomeration benefits are estimated based on city productivity premia which are computed after controlling for the skills …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980093
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Agglomeration Economies and the Urban Wage Premium in Australia
Meekes, Jordy - 2021
Understanding the benefits of dense agglomerations is important for decisions on where to live. This paper is the first to quantify the economic impact of urban density on individual wages, referred to as the urban wage premium, in Australia. By combining Household Income and Labour Dynamics in...
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Accumulating valuable work experience : the importance of large firms and big cities
Peters, Jan Cornelius; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2023
Using linked employer-employee data on labor market biographies of workers in Germany, this paper analyzes where valuable work experience is primarily acquired. It distinguishes between learning effects related to firm size and labor market size. We show that wages increase with the size of the...
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Language and labor market success
Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2014
translation to apply pre-migration human capital in the destination country labor market. …
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Microeconometric analyses on determinants of individual labour market outcomes
Simon, Lisa - 2019
This doctoral thesis analyses the impact of education and other determinants on labour market outcomes using microeconometric methods. Chapter 1 serves as an introduction. Chapter 2 uses a randomised field experiment among German human resource managers to evaluate which skill signals such as...
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The impact of migration on earnings inequality
Jackson, Osborne - 2019 - This version: August 2018
This paper examines the impact of migration on earnings inequality using 1940-2015 data from the U.S. census and … in earnings inequality and migration, and subsequently analyze regional and state patterns. Using 1940 birthplace … information to instrument for migration, I find that recent immigration mildly increases the top decile earnings share, while …
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