This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation …, by level of skill, and by occupation. While point estimates differ, particularly when earnings equations are estimated …, the answers provided to the typical research questions in the ORU literature on the utilization of schooling are …

immigrants to be favorably selected, although this is less intense under the later criteria. The overall favorable selectivity of … immigrants, therefore, depends on the favorable selectivity of the supply of immigrants and the criteria used to ration …This paper explores the theoretical issues and the empirical literature regarding the selectivity of migrants. Although …

existing low-skilled immigrants to the labor market counteract the effect that is triggered by an increase in low …

acquisition, with important implications for the assessment of immigrants' career paths and the estimation of their earnings … evaluate the mechanisms that affect the evolution of immigrants' careers in conjunction with their re-migration plans. Our … profiles. Our study also explains the willingness of immigrants to accept jobs at wages that seem unacceptable to natives …

acquisition, with important implications for the assessment of immigrants’ career paths and the estimation of their earnings … evaluate the mechanisms that affect the evolution of immigrants’ careers in conjunction with their re-migration plans. Our … profiles. Our study also explains the willingness of immigrants to accept jobs at wages that seem unacceptable to natives …

. This 'Composition bias' arising from self-selection into employment is generally ignored in the returns to schooling … education in Britain. The results from the paper suggest that individuals undertaking schooling involving some sort of formal … qualification have significantly larger rates of return than individuals who complete the same number of years of schooling but who …