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This paper studies the occupational selection among generations of immigrants in the United States and links their choices to the occupational wage distribution in their country of origin. The empirical results suggest that individuals are more likely to take up an occupation in the US that was...
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estimation methods in this investigation. We uncover a causal relationship between two of five measures of health and the wage in …We investigate two-way causality between health and the hourly wage by employing insights from the human capital and … which a reduction in health leads to an increase in the wage rate in a panel of U.S. young adults who had completed their …
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We construct and estimate by maximum likelihood an equilibrium search model where wages are set by Nash bargaining and … Survey data on accepted wages and employment durations. We show that it captures almost perfectly the joint distribution of … wages and job spells. We find that the rate of learning-by-doing has an important positive effect on aggregate output and a …
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The labor market "quality" of immigrants is a subject of debate among immigration researchers, and a major public policy concern. However, traditional methods of measuring human capital are particularly difficult to apply to recently arrived immigrants. Many factors that have a negative effect...
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The initial earnings of U.S. immigrants vary enormously by country of origin. Via three interrelated analyses, we show earnings convergence across source countries with time in the United States. Human-capital theory plausibly explains the inverse relationship between initial earnings and...
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