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Mismatch in the graduate labour market among immigrants and second-generation ethnic minority groups

Byrne, Delma; McGuinness, Séamus - 2009

This paper uses graduate survey data and econometric methods to estimate the incidence and wage effects of over-education and overskilling among immigrant and ethnic minority graduates from UK universities. The paper empirically demonstrates that immigrant and second-generation ethnic minority...

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ORU analyses of immigrant earnings in Australia, with international comparisons

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation/required education/undereducation (ORU) framework (Hartog, 2000) and a decomposition of the native-born/foreign-born differential in the payoff to schooling developed by Chiswick and Miller...

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The public-private sector pay gap in Ireland : what lies beneath?

Kelly, Elish; McGuinness, Séamus; O'Connell, Philip J. - 2009

This paper provides a sub-sectoral analysis of changes in the public-private sector pay gap in Ireland between 2003 and 2006. We find that between March 2003 and October 2006 the public sector pay premium increased from 14 to 26 per cent and that there was substantial variation between...

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The returns to observable and unobservable skills over time : evidence from a panel of the population of Danish twins

Bingley, Paul; Christensen, Kaare; Walker, Ian - 2007

observable skills. Indeed, our results suggest that the inequality associated with unobservable skills appears to have fallen …

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Reassessing intergenerational mobility in Germany and the United States : the impact of differences in lifecycle earnings patterns

Vogel, Thorsten (contributor) - 2006

Using longitudinal data on fathers and their children, this study compares the extent of intergenerational mobility in Germany and the United States and introduces an estimation strategy that corrects estimates of intergenerational earnings elasticities for a possible lifecycle bias. In contrast...

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Low-skilled immigrant entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009

-employed. Utilizing longitudinal data from the 1996, 2001 and 2004 Survey of Income and Program Participation panels, this paper analyzes …

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Sexual identity and the marriage premium

Lafrance, Amélie; Warman, Casey; Woolley, Frances R. - 2009

sets containing both income and sexual orientation information (Carpenter, 2008). Partnered gay and bisexual men spend more …

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German male income volatility 1984 to 2008

Bartels, Charlotte; Bönke, Timm - 2010

equivalent household income. Permanent and transitory variances of male income over the period 1984-2008 are estimated for Old … German Laender in order to determine their importance to income dynamics. To uncover the role of the welfare state in … smoothening earnings shocks we compute different income concepts reaching from gross earnings to net equivalent household income …

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Earnings determination and taxes : evidence from a cohort based payroll tax reform in Greece

Saez, Emmanuel; Matsaganis, Manos; Tsakloglou, Panos O. - 2010

This paper analyzes the response of earnings to payroll tax rates using a cohort-based reform in Greece. All individuals who started working on or after 1993 face permanently a much higher earnings cap for payroll taxes, creating a large and permanent discontinuity in marginal payroll tax rates...

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The changing economic advantage from private school

Green, Francis; Machin, Stephen; Murphy, Richard; Zhu, Yu - 2010

Despite its relatively small size, the private school sector plays a prominent role in British society. This paper focuses on changing wage and education differentials between privately educated and state educated individuals in Britain. It reports evidence that the private/state school wage...

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