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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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Labor market incorporation of immigrants in Japan and the United States : a comparative analysis
Cornelius, Wayne A.; Tsuda, Takeyuki - 2002
The most commonly used model of labor market incorporation among immigrants in the United States analyzes their … may lose much of its explanatory power in other societies, where immigrants encounter different labor market conditions … social networks by immigrants to find jobs has a significant impact on wages in both countries, the effect is positive in …
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Do migrants lower workplace wages?
White, Michael; Bryson, Alex - 2017
-white employees, a finding that is consistent with employer discrimination on grounds of race, or lower worker bargaining power when …
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Endowment or discrimination? : An analysis of immigrant-native earnings differentials in Switzerland
Golder, Stefan M. - 2000
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Endowment or discrimination? : an analysis of immigrant-native earnings differentials in Switzerland
Golder, Stefan M. - 2000
Recent studies have shown that there are significant earnings differentials between immigrants and natives in …-economic endowments or to discrimination. We use the well-known econometric technique, developed by Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973), to … determine the extent of discrimination. As data on earnings are available only for employed, we adopt a two-stage Heckman …
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Separate and Unequal: The Effect of Unequal Access to Employment-Based Health Insurance on Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual People
Ash, Michael A.; Badgett, M.V. Lee - 2004
Employers' standard practice of including legal spouses in health insurance is likely to place people in unmarried couples at a significant disadvantage for obtaining coverage. Data from married and unmarried couples in the Current Population Survey confirm that people with unmarried partners...
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Acculturation and the labor market in Mexico
Cano-Urbina, Javier; Mason, Patrick L. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 5 (2016) 21, pp. 1-29
This paper empirically examines the relationship between the self-identity as Indigenous and earnings inequality in the Mexican labor market. Using Mexican Census data and a large set of wage covariates reveals the existence of an earnings penalty for self-identification as Indigenous. There is...
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Separate and Unequal: The Effect of Unequal Access to Employment-Based Health Insurance on Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual People
Ash, Michael A.; Badgett, M.V. Lee - Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst - 2004
Employers' standard practice of including legal spouses in health insurance is likely to place people in unmarried couples at a significant disadvantage for obtaining coverage. Data from married and unmarried couples in the Current Population Survey confirm that people with unmarried partners...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005533190
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The educational attainment, labour market participation and living conditions of young Roma in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania
Cekota, Jaromir; Trentini, Claudia - Economic Commission for Europe (UN-ECE), United Nations - 2011
This paper investigates the educational attainment, labour market participation and living conditions of young Roma adults in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania based on data from the generations and gender surveys and other sources of information. It shows that in spite of a small improvement in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009364726
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Separate and unequal : the effect of unequal access to employment-based health insurance on gay, lesbian, and bisexual people
Ash, Michael A.; Badgett, M. V. Lee - 2004
Employers' standard practice of including legal spouses in health insurance is likely to place people in unmarried couples at a significant disadvantage for obtaining coverage. Data from married and unmarried couples in the Current Population Survey confirm that people with unmarried partners...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527186