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Immigration and wages : new evidence from the African American Great Migration

Gardner, John - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 22, pp. 1-45

During the African American Great Migration, millions of blacks left the Southern USA in favor of cities in the North. Despite the social and economic consequences of this migration, the question of its impacts on labor markets in the North has largely been overlooked in the literature. In this...

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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 … terms of credibility, relevance, and expectedness by gender and education level. Females are particularly rewarded for IT … and language skills and males for maturity. Chapter 3 analyses the impact of beliefs about refugees' education levels on …

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Human capital quality and the immigrant wage gap

Coulombe, Serge; Grenier, Gilles; Nadeau, Serge J. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-22

We propose a new methodology for analyzing determinants of the wage gap between immigrants and natives. A Mincerian regression framework is extended to include GDP per capita in an immigrant's country of birth as a proxy for the quality of schooling and work experience acquired in that country....

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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 spanning from 1966 through 2017, using both educational attainment and performance on standardized tests to measure human capital. There are three main findings. First, the...

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Wage distributions in origin societies and occupational choices of immigrant generations in the US

Zhan, Crystal - 2020

This paper studies the occupational selection among generations of immigrants in the United States and links their choices to the occupational wage distribution in their country of origin. The empirical results suggest that individuals are more likely to take up an occupation in the US that was...

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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

This chapter discusses the large literature and numerous issues regarding education-related differences in income in …, empirical analyses concentrated directly on education-related differences in earnings. The human capital revolution of the late … 1950s/early 1960s greatly expanded the research on education and income and shifted the focus to wages. The human capital …

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Do gays shy away from competition? : do lesbians compete too much?

Buser, Thomas; Geijtenbeek, Lydia; Plug, Erik J. S. - 2015

It is an established fact that gay men earn less than other men and lesbian women earn more than other women. In this paper we study whether differences in competitive preferences, which have emerged as a likely determinant of labour market differences between men and women, can provide a...

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Race-based educational, occupational and industry segregation and wages gaps in Trinidad and Tobago

Schimanski, Caroline; Chagalj, Cristian; Ruprah, Inder S. - 2018

majority racial groups that had during colonialism been highly segregated in terms of education, occupation, industry and … heterogeneity both in terms of segregation and wage gaps across education levels, occupations, industries and sectors. Racial wage … decomposition techniques, this study furthermore provides evidence of large heterogeneity in returns to education and a shift in the …

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Immigrant wages in the Spanish labour market: does the origin of human capital matter?

Sanromá, Esteban; Ramos, Raúl; Simón, Hipólito - 2009

studied in Spain. Whatever their home country, they obtain relatively high wage returns to education, including the part not …

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Ethnic specialization and earnings inequality : why being a minority hurts but being a big minority hurts more

Kahanec, Martin (contributor) - 2006

Social interaction is an important vehicle of human capital acquisition and its efficiency decreases in social distance. In this paper I establish that these two premises, given the socio-cultural differences between ethnic groups, explain the puzzling evidence that (i) minorities typically earn...

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