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young Italian male workers. Using instrumental variables, I take into account endogeneity and selection problems generated … biased and that white collars workers enjoy higher returns to general and specific skills than blue collars. …
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After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high … accounted for by a single proximate cause - rising employment and wages in low-education, in-person service occupations. We … automation. We find that in labor markets that were initially specialized in routine-intensive occupations, employment and wages …
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offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It provides data, reports findings from published papers, describes …
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offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It provides data, reports findings from published papers, describes …
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This study examines the degree to which the effects of job loss depend on task usage and task distance to other jobs. We use linked employer-employee data and representative survey data on task usage and plant closures to identify individuals who have lost their jobs involuntarily. We find that...
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that an additional year of parental education increases sons' weekly wages by 11.7% after twenty years of experience and …
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administrative (social security) data from Italy between 1985 and 2016. During the time covered by our data, earnings inequality and … reforms contributed to the slowdown in labor productivity in Italy by delaying human capital accumulation (in the form of …
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immigrants to Canada were employed in source country occupations that typically require high levels of cognitive skills, but rely … less intently on manual skills. Following immigration, they find initial employment in occupations that require the … and manual skills, these discrepancies are larger among immigrants with limited language fluency. …
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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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cognitive skills, but relied less intently on manual skills. Following immigration, they find initial employment in occupations …
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