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Skilled migrants and labour market integration : how important is the selection process?
Van de Ven, Justin; Voitchovsky, Sarah - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-28
Although many OECD countries use skilled migration to boost economic performance, there is surprisingly little direct empirical evidence concerning what effects historical initiatives in this area have had. This study estimates the effects of Australia's recent shift toward a "hybrid approach"...
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Prevalence of long hours and skilled women's occupational choices
Cortés, Patricia; Pan, Jessica - 2016
Gender differences in occupations account for a sizable portion of the persistent gender pay gap. This paper examines the relationship between the demand for long hours of work (as proxied for by the share of men working 50 or more hours per week) and skilled women's occupational choice....
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Substitution between groups of highly-educated, foreign-born, H-1B workers
Sparber, Chad - 2018
Highly-educated foreign-born workers can secure legal US employment through the H-1B program. The annual cap on H-1B issuances varies across individuals' US educational experience, H-1B work history, and employer type. Caps are met quickly in most but not all years. This paper exploits these...
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Prevalence of Long Hours and Skilled Women's Occupational Choices
Cortes, Patricia - 2016
Gender differences in occupations account for a sizable portion of the persistent gender pay gap. This paper examines the relationship between the demand for long hours of work (as proxied for by the share of men working 50 or more hours per week) and skilled women's occupational choice....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982125
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Cognitive Skills, Noncognitive Skills, and School-to-Work Transitions in Rural China
Glewwe, Paul - 2017
Economists have long recognized the important role of formal schooling and cognitive skills on labor market participation and wages. More recently, increasing attention has turned to the role of personality traits, or noncognitive skills. This study is among the first to examine how both...
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Optimal policy in models of search unemployment with frictions and externalities
Schuster, Philip - 2012
turbulenten Umfeld, welches in Form von Qualifikationsverlust während Zeiten der Arbeitslosigkeit modelliert ist, um eine …-optimal level of aggregate search. It is shown that the optimal allocation can be implemented using cyclical unemployment benefits …. Unemployment ; labor market policy ; economic turbulence ; trade liberalization ; cyclical unemployment benefits …
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Changing labour markets and early career outcomes : labour market entry in Europe over the past decade
Gangl, Markus - 2000
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No longer qualified? : changes in the supply and demand for skills within occupations
Burke, Mary A.; Sasser, Alicia; Sadighi, Shahriar; … - 2020 - This version: October 2019
Using a novel database of 159 million online job postings, we examine changes in employer skill requirements for education and specific skillsets between 2007 and 2017. We find that upskilling - in terms of increasing demands for bachelor's degrees as well as software skills - was a persistent...
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No longer qualified? : changes in the supply and demand for skills within occupations
Sasser, Alicia; Burke, Mary A.; Sadighi, Shahriar; … - 2023
Although labor market "mismatch" often refers to an imbalances in supply and demand across occupations, mismatch within occupations can arise if skill requirements are changing over time, potentially reducing aggregate matching efficiency within the labor market. To test this, we examine changes...
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Wage Divergence and Unemployment : The Impact of Insider Power and Training Costs
Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - 2003
The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market … has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper adds an innovative labour supply … to an increased relative skill demand which is not matched by the skill supply and therefore mis-match unemployment …
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