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International migration and the economics of language

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2014

destination language skills, and Economic incentives for acquiring this proficiency, (3) the consequences for immigrants of …

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Gender discrimination estimation in a search model with matching and bargaining

Flabbi, Luca (contributor) - 2005

differentials are due to labor market discrimination or to unobserved productivity differences. The objective of this paper is to … matching, bargaining and employers' taste discrimination. In equilibrium all types of employers wage discriminate women … differentials ; discrimination ; search models ; maximum likelihood estimation ; structural estimation ; affirmative action …

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Gender Gaps in Education and Labor Market Outcomes in the United States : The Impact of Employers' Prejudice

Flabbi, Luca - 2013

This paper makes three contributions to the existing literature. First, it provides descriptive evidence on gender differentials by education level in the US labor market over the last twenty years. Second, it uses the structural estimation of a search model of the labor market to identify and...

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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...

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Intersectionality and Discrimination : An Examination of the U.S. Labor Market

White, Roger - 2023

Chapter 1: A Rationale for the Study of Intersectional Wage Discrimination -- Chapter 2: Theories of Discrimination and …-Oaxaca Technique -- Chapter 4: Estimating Wage Discrimination and Examining Variation Across Worker Groups -- Chapter 5: Evidence of … Intersectional Wage Discrimination and the Consideration of Possible Pre-Market Discrimination -- Chapter 6: A Summary and Concluding …

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A test of the "Krugman hypothesis" for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …

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Gender Wage Differentials and the Occupational Injury Risk - Evidence from Germany and the US

Kluve, Jochen; Schaffner, Sandra - 2007

Numerous studies, in particular for the US, have shown that individuals in occupations with high injury risk are compensated for that risk by corresponding bonus payments. At the same time, male workers are overrepresented in the most dangerous occupations like scaffolders or miners, while...

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Gender Wage Differentials and the Occupational Injury Risk - Evidence from Germany and the US

Kluve, Jochen; Schaffner, Sandra - 2008

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"Can't get enough" : prejudice, contact jobs and the racial wage gap in the US

Laouénan, Morgane - 2014

discrimination driven by prejudice plays a part in explaining this residual wage gap. Whereas racial prejudice has substantially … customer discrimination. I test this model using the IPUMS, the General Social Survey and the Occupation Information Network …

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Trends in the returns to social assimilation : earnings premiums among U.S. immigrants that marry natives

Furtado, Delia; Song, Tao - 2014

Previous studies show that immigrants married to natives earn higher wages than immigrants married to other immigrants … immigrants that tend to marry natives but are instead most likely a result of increasing returns to the characteristics of … immigrants married to natives. Because immigrants married to natives tend to have more schooling, part of the increasing premium …

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