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Wage discrimination against immigrants: Measurement with firm-level productivity data
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - In: IZA Journal of Migration 5 (2016) 15, pp. 1-24
This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586066
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Uncovering the Roots of Obesity- Based Wage Discrimination: The Role of Job Characteristics
Dolado, Juan; Minale, Luigi; Guerra, Airam - 2023
obesity and hourly wages. Using a panel dataset of white individuals drawn from the U.S. 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532858
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Wage discrimination against immigrants : measurement with firm-level productivity data
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 15, pp. 1-24
This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011529088
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Labor market incorporation of immigrants in Japan and the United States : a comparative analysis
Cornelius, Wayne A.; Tsuda, Takeyuki - 2002
achieved human capital do not significantly influence immigrant wages in Hamamatsu. Instead, ascribed human capital (e ….g., gender, ethnicity) has a much greater impact on immigrant wages in Japan than in the United States. Although the use of … social networks by immigrants to find jobs has a significant impact on wages in both countries, the effect is positive in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411093
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Computer skills, destination language proficiency and the earnings of natives and immigrants
Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor);  … - 2005
Using data from the 2001 Census of Population and Housing in Australia, this paper investigates the determinants, and consequences for earnings, of computer use by both the native born and the foreign born. Focussing on the foreign born, the multivariate analyses show that recent arrivals are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003115142
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The Labor Market Effects of English Language Proficiency : Communication Skills and the Occupational Choice of Childhood Immigrants to the United States
Hlavac, Marek - 2013
I examine the effect of English language proficiency on the occupational choices of childhood immigrants into the United States. In particular, I focus on the annual earnings and skills composition associated with immigrants' chosen occupations. Following Bleakley and Chin (2004; 2010), I use an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072219
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Wage, Literacy, and Numeracy Skills Inequality : Do Immigration Admission Categories Matter?
Mueller, Richard - 2020
compared to those born in Canada, although young immigrants do outperform adult immigrants. Similar results are found for wages … scores and hourly wages, with refugees having the lowest. The wage returns to these basic skills are economically significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835587
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A Panel Study of Immigrants' Overeducation and Earnings in Australia
Wen, Le - 2017
The recent literature on overeducation has provided divergent results on whether or not overeducation bears an earnings penalty. In addition, few studies have considered overeducation among immigrants. This paper uses panel data analyses to investigate the match between education and occupation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012940841
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Wage effects of educational mismatch according to workers' origin: the role of demographics and firm characteristics
Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2021
This paper examines the influence of educational mismatch on wages according to workers' region of birth, taking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012670643
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Wage effects of educational mismatch according toworkers' origin : the role of demographics and firm characteristics
Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2021
This paper analyses the wage effects of educational mismatch by workers' origin using a sizeable, detailed matched employer-employee dataset for Belgium. Relying on a fine-grained approach to measuring educational mismatch, the results show that over-educated workers, regardless of their origin,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012652813