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Occupational Mobility and the Returns to Training

Kambourov, Gueorgui; Manovskii, Iourii; Plesca, Miana - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2012

The literature on the returns to training has pointed out that, immediately following a training episode, wages of participants in employer-sponsored training increase substantially while wages of participants in government-sponsored training hardly change. We argue that a clear selection issue...

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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 - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2012

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

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Career Progression, Economic Downturns, and Skills

Adda, Jerome; Dustmann, Christian; Meghir, Costas; … - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2013

This paper analyzes the career progression of skilled and unskilled workers, with a focus on how careers are affected by economic downturns and whether formal skills, acquired early on, can shield workers from the effect of recessions. Using detailed administrative data for Germany for numerous...

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From Engineer to Taxi Driver? Language Proficiency and the Occupational Skills of Immigrants

Imai, Susumu; Stacey, Derek; Warman, Casey - Economics Discipline Group, Business School - 2014

We examine the ability of male immigrants to transfer the occupational human capital they acquired prior to immigration using information from the O*NET and a unique dataset that includes both the last source country occupation and the first four years of occupations in Canada. We first augment...

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The Labour Market Effect of Immigration: Accounting for Effective Immigrant Work Experience in New Zealand

Tse, Michael M. H.; Maani, Sholeh A. - 2016

This guide, updated for the 2016-17 job market season, describes the U.S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It provides data, reports findings from published papers, describes practical details, and includes links to online...

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Occupational Mobility and Wage Inequality

Kambourov, Gueorgui; Manovskii, Iourii - 2004

In this study we argue that wage inequality and occupational mobility are intimately related. We are motivated by our empirical findings that human capital is occupation-specific and that the fraction of workers switching occupations in the United States was as high as 16% a year in the early...

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The Promise of Workplace Training for Non-College-Bound Youth: Theory and Evidence from German Apprenticeship

Clark, Damon; Fahr, René - 2001

This paper assesses the potential of ?workplace training? with reference to German Apprenticeship. When occupational matching is important, we derive conditions under which firms provide ?optimal? training packages. Since the German system broadly meets these conditions, we evaluate the...

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From the Cradle to the Grave: the Effect of Family Background on the Career Path of Italian Men

Raitano, Michele; Vona, Francesco - 2015

This paper investigates the influence of parental education on the returns to experience of Italian men using a new … that an additional year of parental education increases sons' weekly wages by 11.7% after twenty years of experience and … it appears the result of both a glass ceiling effect, due to the complementarity between parental education and son …

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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 - Economics Department, Queen's University - 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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399702

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

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

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