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Born abroad and educated here : examining the impacts of education and skill mismatch among immigrant graduates in Europe
McGuinness, Séamus; Byrne, Delma - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-30
This paper examines the wage and job satisfaction effects of over-education and overskilling among migrants graduating from EU-15 based universities in 2005. Female migrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a higher likelihood of overskilling. Newly arrived migrants incurred...
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The economic returns to graduating with honors : evidence from law graduates ; conference paper
Freier, Ronny; Schumann, Mathias; Siedler, Thomas - 2014
balancing, we find that students of law who passed the state bar exam with an honors degree receive a significant earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010483277
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Institutional determinants of student achievement : microeconometric evidence
Link, Susanne - 2013
This volume was prepared by Susanne Link during her stay at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and the Department of Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute of Economic Research. It was accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Departure of the University of Munich in...
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Does the choice of reference levels of education matter in the ORU earnings equation?
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009
This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation/under-education (ORU) literature are sensitive to whether the usual or reference levels of education are measured using the Realized Matches or Worker Self-Assessment methods. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003894826
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Does the Choice of Reference Levels of Education Matter in the Oru Earnings Equation?
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2009
This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation/under-education (ORU) literature are sensitive to whether the usual or reference levels of education are measured using the Realized Matches or Worker Self-Assessment methods. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155607
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The returns to school-quality-adjusted education of immigrants in Germany
Quang, Huy Le; Vallizadeh, Ehsan - In: Journal for labour market research 56 (2022) 1, pp. 1-15
This paper explores the role of school quality in immigrants' home countries on their earnings in Germany, using native Germans as a benchmark. We propose an empirical analysis that highlights two important insights. First, there is a substantial gap in the returns to education between natives...
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How do Latin American migrants in the U.S. stand on schooling premium? : what does it reveal about education quality in their home countries?
Alonso Soto, Daniel; Ñopo, Hugo - 2017
Indicators for quality of schooling are not only relatively new in the world but also unavailable for a sizable share of the world's population. In their absence, some proxy measures have been devised. One simple but powerful idea has been to use the schooling premium for migrant workers in the...
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The effects of policies concerning teachers' wages on students' performance
Varga, Júlia - 2017
the first part of teachers' career increase students' maths and science performance, while the effect was less pronounced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011628327
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Russian migrants to Russia : assimilation and local labor market effects
Lazareva, Olga - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-25
employment and wages of the local population. I show that male immigrants were fully integrated into the labor market, while … female immigrants faced significant wage and employment gaps upon arrival, and their assimilation was slow. Using an IV … population's employment but not on wages. The initial displacement effects are particularly large for men, but they disappear …
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The Wage Performance of Immigrant Women : Full-Time Jobs, Part-Time Jobs, and the Role of Selection
Dustmann, Christian; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2021
This paper contrasts labour participation behaviour and wages of native and immigrant women. Since the impact of family structure on labor supply differs between natives and immigrants, we explicitly distinguish between part-time and full-time jobs. The choice of jobs is accounted for by an...
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