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How does education affect the earnings distribution in urban China?
Wang, Le - 2011
China's phenomenal growth is accompanied by both relatively low level of standards of living and high inequality. It is … reduce inequality. However, little is known about whether this belief is empirically supported. To this end, we employ a … developed countries. Our result implies that education indeed reduces earnings inequality while increasing individuals' earnings …
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How does education affect the earnings distribution in urban China?
Wang, Le - 2011
China's phenomenal growth is accompanied by both relatively low level of standards of living and high inequality. It is … reduce inequality. However, little is known about whether this belief is empirically supported. To this end, we employ a … developed countries. Our result implies that education indeed reduces earnings inequality while increasing individuals' earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522982
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How Does Education Affect the Earnings Distribution in Urban China?
Wang, Le - 2011
China's phenomenal growth is accompanied by both relatively low level of standards of living and high inequality. It is … reduce inequality. However, little is known about whether this belief is empirically supported. To this end, we employ a … developed countries. Our result implies that education indeed reduces earnings inequality while increasing individuals' earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117613
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Economic transition and college premium in urban China
Wang, Le - In: China Economic Review 23 (2012) 2, pp. 238-252
China has recently undergone a series of reforms on higher education aimed at raising the level of human capital. However, relatively little is known about returns to higher education (i.e. college premium) and how it varies across population in China over time. In this paper, we contribute to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010875349
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Immigrant wages in the Spanish labour market : does the origin of human capital matter?
Sanromá, Esteban; Ramos, Raúl; Simón, Hipólito - 2009
The aim of this paper is to analyse the role played by the different components of human capital in the wage determination of recent immigrants within the Spanish labour market. Using microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes 2007, the paper examines returns to human capital of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832286
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International migration and the economics of language
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2014
This paper provides a review of the research on the ‘economics of language' as applied to international migration. Its primary focuses are on: (1) the effect of the language skills of an individual on the choice of destination among international (and internal) migrants, both in terms of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230532
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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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Immigrant Wages in the Spanish Labour Market : Does the Origin of Human Capital Matter?
Sanroma, Esteban - 2009
The aim of this paper is to analyse the role played by the different components of human capital in the wage determination of recent immigrants within the Spanish labour market. Using microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes 2007, the paper examines returns to human capital of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159931
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Limits to wage growth : understanding the wage divergence between immigrants and natives
Jain, Apoorva; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2017
This study finds evidence of wage divergence between immigrants and natives in Germany using a country-wide household panel from 1984 to 2014. We incorporate the possibility of wage divergence into a two-period model of economic assimilation by modeling the differences in the efficiency of human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704320
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Immigrant Wages in the Spanish Labor Market. Does the Origin of Human Capital Matter? (Los Salarios de los Inmigrantes en el Mercado de Trabajo Español. ¿Importa el Origen del Capi...
Sanroma, Esteban; Ramos, Raul; Simon, Hipolito - 2011
The aim of this paper is to analyse the role played by the different components of human capital in the wage determination of recent immigrants within the Spanish labour market. Using microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes 2007, the paper examines returns to human capital of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014182800