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The giant graduates: China's strive for high-technology
Opper, Sonja - In: CESifo Forum 06 (2005) 3, pp. 43-48
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Human capital quality and the immigrant wage gap
Coulombe, Serge; Grenier, Gilles; Nadeau, Serge - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014), pp. 1-22
We propose a new methodology for analyzing determinants of the wage gap between immigrants and natives. A Mincerian regression framework is extended to include GDP per capita in an immigrant's country of birth as a proxy for the quality of schooling and work experience acquired in that country....
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Monitoring, endogenous comparative advantage, and immigration
Qirjo, Dhimitri - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-22
complex industry. We show that national institutional quality and the system of the early childhood care and education …
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Making sense of Arab labor markets: The enduring legacy of dualism
Assaad, Ragui - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 3 (2014), pp. 1-25
It is well-established that Arab labor markets share certain common characteristics, including an oversized public sector, high youth unemployment, weak private sectors, rapidly growing but highly distorted educational attainment, and low and stagnant female labor force participation. I argue in...
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Global skill partnerships: A proposal for technical training in a mobile world
Clemens, Michael A. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-18
Skilled workers emigrate from developing countries in rising numbers, raising fears of a drain on the human and financial resources of the countries they leave. This paper critiques existing policy proposals to address the development effects of skilled migration. It then proposes a new kind of...
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Who suffers from unemployment? The role of health and skills
Nilsson, Anton - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-24
Unemployment swings have distributional consequences if some groups are hit harder than others. We examine if the sensitivity to local unemployment rates varies by characteristics such as health, cognitive ability and non-cognitive ability. Data on these variables come from registers covering...
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Intergenerational return to human capital
Devereux, Paul J. - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
Governments invest a lot of money in education, so it is important to understand the benefits of this spending. One … essential aspect is that education may make people better parents and thus improve the educational and employment outcomes of … inequality in current and future generations. In addition to purely formal education, much less expensive interventions to …
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Smart policy toward high-skill emigrants
Clemens, Michael A. - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
Immigration officials in rich countries are being asked to become overseas development officials, charged with preventing skilled workers from leaving poor countries, where their skills are needed. Some advocates urge restrictions or taxes on the emigration of doctors and engineers from...
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Wage and occupational assimilation by skill level: Migration policy lessons from Spain
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 1 (2012), pp. 1-20
What are the migration policy lessons that can be learned from the Spanish case? Unlike countries with a large tradition of receiving immigrants, in Spain having a high-school degree does not give immigrants an advantage in terms wage or occupational assimilation (relative to their native...
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Good workers for good jobs: Improving education and workforce systems in the US
Holzer, Harry J. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-19
Stagnant earnings and growing inequality in the US labor market reflect both a slowdown in the growth of worker skills and the growing matching of good-paying jobs to skilled workers. Improving the ties between colleges, workforce institutions, and employers would help more workers gain the...
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