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Does employer learning vary by occupation?

Mansour, Hani - 2010

independently from education and that the results are not driven by workers' occupational mobility. -- Wage dynamics ; occupational …

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The intergenerational transmission of occupational preferences, segregation, and wage inequality : empirical evidence from three countries

Eberharter, Veronika V. - 2012

Based on longitudinal data (CNEF 1980-2010) the paper analyzes the structuring effects of individual and family background characteristics on occupational preferences, and the influence of occupational segregation on gender wage differentials in Germany, Great Britain, and the United States....

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Immigrant selection systems and occupational outcomes of international medical graduates in Canada and the United States

McDonald, James Ted; Warman, Casey; Worswick, Christopher - 2011

We analyze the process of immigrant selection and occupational outcomes of International Medical Graduates (IMGs) in the US and Canada. We extend the IMG relicensing model of Kugler and Sauer (2005) to incorporate two different approaches to immigrant selection: employer nomination systems and...

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Intergenerational trends in educational and income mobility in the United States of America since the 1960s

Ernst, Ekkehard; Langot, François; Merola, Rossana; … - 2024

top of the education and income distribution (upward mobility) has increased. On the other hand, for children whose …

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Wage distributions in origin societies and occupational choices of immigrant generations in the US

Zhan, Crystal - 2020

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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Returns for entrepreneurs vs. employees : the effect of education and personal control on the relative performance of entrepreneurs vs. wage employees

Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - 2009

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs' performance as compared to employees'? What might explain any differences …? And does education affect peoples' occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of … US labor force participants. We show that education affects peoples' decisions to become an entrepreneur negatively. We …

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Chapter 6 Educational Wage Premiums and the U.S. Income Distribution: A Survey

Deere, Donald R.; Vesovic, Jelena - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 1, (pp. 255-306). 2006

This chapter discusses the large literature and numerous issues regarding education-related differences in income in …, empirical analyses concentrated directly on education-related differences in earnings. The human capital revolution of the late … 1950s/early 1960s greatly expanded the research on education and income and shifted the focus to wages. The human capital …

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