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Wage, Literacy, and Numeracy Skills Inequality : Do Immigration Admission Categories Matter?
Mueller, Richard - 2020
Using the 2012 Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), we explore differences in literacy and numeracy skills, and the economic returns to these skills, for Canadian immigrants and non-immigrants. The novelty of this research is disaggregating the sample into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835587
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Can educational expansion improve income inequality in China? : evidences from the CHNS 1997 and 2006 data
Ning, Guangjie - 2010
Rapid education expansion and rising income inequality are two striking phenomena occurring in China during the … transitional period. Using the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) data collected in 1997 and 2006, this paper studies how … effect. In explaining the earning gap in China, the price effect is more important than the population effect. The labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008989747
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Effects of Education on Earnings Inequality in Urban China : 1988-2003
LI, Xiaohua; Zhao, Yaohui; Lu, Lili - 2014
Using annual urban household survey data from 6 provinces in different regions of China, we analyze the rapid increase … in earning inequality of urban China from 1988 to 2003. We describe overall and residual inequality trends and use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014208138
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Education expansion and income inequality : empirical evidence from China
Hu, Xiaoshan; Wan, Guanghua; Zuo, Congmin - 2023
variable in driving down China's wage inequality between 2010 and 2018. We find that (1) education accounted for over 30% of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014438780
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Earnings Instability and Earnings Inequality in Urban China : 1989-2006
Zhao, Zhong - 2021
This paper investigates the evolution of earnings inequality in urban China from 1989 to 2006. After decomposing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325187
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Identity-based earning discrimination among Chinese people
Siddique, Abu Bakkar - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1/5, pp. 1-42
Hukou registration is an instrument to control nonplanned population and capital movements, which the Chinese Communist Party has been exploiting extensively since the 1950s. It requires that each Chinese citizen be classified as either an agricultural or nonagricultural hukou inheritor and be...
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Limits to wage growth : understanding the wage divergence between immigrants and natives
Jain, Apoorva; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2017
This study finds evidence of wage divergence between immigrants and natives in Germany using a country-wide household panel from 1984 to 2014. We incorporate the possibility of wage divergence into a two-period model of economic assimilation by modeling the differences in the efficiency of human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704320
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Immigrant wages in the Spanish labour market : does the origin of human capital matter?
Sanromá, Esteban; Ramos, Raúl; Simón, Hipólito - 2009
The aim of this paper is to analyse the role played by the different components of human capital in the wage determination of recent immigrants within the Spanish labour market. Using microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes 2007, the paper examines returns to human capital of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832286
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Immigrant Wages in the Spanish Labor Market. Does the Origin of Human Capital Matter? (Los Salarios de los Inmigrantes en el Mercado de Trabajo Español. ¿Importa el Origen del Capi...
Sanroma, Esteban; Ramos, Raul; Simon, Hipolito - 2011
The aim of this paper is to analyse the role played by the different components of human capital in the wage determination of recent immigrants within the Spanish labour market. Using microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes 2007, the paper examines returns to human capital of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014182800
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Immigrant Wages in the Spanish Labour Market : Does the Origin of Human Capital Matter?
Sanroma, Esteban - 2009
The aim of this paper is to analyse the role played by the different components of human capital in the wage determination of recent immigrants within the Spanish labour market. Using microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes 2007, the paper examines returns to human capital of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159931