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Are Immigrants Favorably Self-Selected? An Economic Analysis
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2000
This paper explores the theoretical issues and the empirical literature regarding the selectivity of migrants. Although … favorable selectivity is more intense the greater the out-of-pocket (direct) costs of migration and return migration, the … differentials in the lower-wage origin relative to the higher-wage destination. Favorable selectivity for labor market success can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262350
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Are immigrants favorably self-selected? : an economic analysis
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2000
This paper explores the theoretical issues and the empirical literature regarding the selectivity of migrants. Although … favorable selectivity is more intense the greater the out-of-pocket (direct) costs of migration and return migration, the … differentials in the lower-wage origin relative to the higher-wage destination. Favorable selectivity for labor market success can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325988
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Earnings penalty of educational mismatch : a comparison of alternative methods of assessing over-education
Wen, Le; Maani, Sholeh A. - 2023
international literature on the measured incidence of educational mismatch and its earnings effects. We use a rich Australian … rate of over-education is 32.3%. The earnings penalty for each year of over-education is 2.5%, which is larger than 0.6% in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013545845
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Qualifications and earnings in Britain : how reliable are conventional OLS estimates of the returns to education?
Dearden, Lorraine - 1999 - Revised version
The paper estimates the returns to education for a cohort of individuals born in Britain in March 1958 who have been followed since birth until the age of 33. The data used has a wealth of information on family background including parental education, social class and interest shown in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011538431
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The Matching of Heterogeneous Firms and Politicians
Chen, Maggie Xiaoyang - 2010
We use a Chinese firm-director level panel dataset to examine the matching of heterogeneous firms and politicians. Based on 36,308 detailed biographies, we identify individuals that previously held bureaucratic positions and classify the rank of each position in the Chinese political hierarchy....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141808
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Estimating Returns to Capital and Ability : Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Wong, Po Yin - 2017
This paper estimates economic returns to physical capital and inherent ability among Indonesian fishermen using a natural experiment. By exploiting the quasi-random variation in the length of fishing boats generated by an aid program among survivors of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, it is found...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972910
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Mincer earnings functions for the Netherlands 1962-2012
Hartog, Joop; Gerritsen, Sander - 2016
We extract estimation results on the Mincer earnings function from four earlier studies and add new results from a … recent dataset. We analyse differences related to differences in earnings concepts, in sampling frame and differences among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416388
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The expected (signaling) value of higher education
Ehrmantraut, Laura; Pinger, Pia; Stans, Renske - 2020
This paper explores students' expectations about the returns to completing higher education and provides first evidence on \textit{perceived} signaling and human capital effects. We elicit counterfactual labor market expectations for the hypothetical scenarios of leaving university with or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293120
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The expected (signaling) value of higher education
Ehrmantraut, Laura; Pinger, Pia; Stans, Renske - 2020
This paper explores students' expectations about the returns to completing higher education and provides first evidence on perceived signaling and human capital effects. We elicit counterfactual labor market expectations for the hypothetical scenarios of leaving university with or without a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293817
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The expected (signaling) value of higher education
Ehrmantraut, Laura; Pinger, Pia; Stans, Renske - 2020
This paper explores students' expectations about the returns to completing higher education and provides first evidence on perceived signaling and human capital effects. We elicit counterfactual labor market expectations for the hypothetical scenarios of leaving university with or without a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293840