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 …

explain selection at early stages of the education system. Our findings for Uruguay suggest that long-term factors, such as … parental background or ethnicity matter across all education stages while the effect of short-term factors, such as family … income, wear out as individuals progress in the education system, suggesting a severe selection process at early stages. …

Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host …

Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host …

A common finding throughout the Canadian immigration literature is that, despite having high levels of education …, recent immigrants endure substantial earnings disadvantages upon arrival that persist throughout their working career. This … paper investigates the role of “qualitative” education-job matches in explaining these poor labor market outcomes. Using a …

known about the private return to education, much less is known about the more important question of what happens to … of human capital can benefit society in ways that are not fully reflected in the private return of education. Human … individual productivity. Furthermore, increases in education can reduce criminal participation and improve voters political …

education in China appear to be zero. We estimate an instrumental variables fixed effects model where share of college graduates … is instrumented by the number of universities with special status and find positive external returns to education of … rural, men, and low-educated workers. This finding provides the motivation for increasing education investment in rural …

This chapter reports on the “economics of language” for immigrants—that is, the influence of language on the choice of … destination among international migrants, the determinants among immigrants of destination language proficiency, and the labor … market consequences of that proficiency, as expressed in their earnings. Immigrants tend to take language differences across …

destination language skills, and Economic incentives for acquiring this proficiency, (3) the consequences for immigrants of … are considered include age, education, gender, family structure, costs of migration, linguistic distance, duration in the …