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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...

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Occupations after WWII : The Legacy of Rosie the Riveter

Bellou, Andriana - 2013

WWII induced a dramatic increase in female labor supply, which persisted over time, particularly for women with higher education. Using Census micro data we study the qualitative aspects of this long term increase through the lenses of the occupations women held after the war. Almost two decades...

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The Effects of Occupational Knowledge : Job Information Centers, Educational Choices, and Labor Market Outcomes

Saniter, Nils Peter - 2014

This study examines the causal link between individuals' occupational knowledge, educational choices, and labor market outcomes. We proxy occupational knowledge with mandatory visits to job information centers (JICs) in Germany while still attending school. Exogenous variation in the location...

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If You Are So Smart, Why Aren't You an Entrepreneur? Returns to Cognitive and Social Ability : Entrepreneurs versus Employees

Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van; van der Sluis, Justin - 2021

How valuable are cognitive and social abilities for entrepreneurs' incomes as compared to employees? We answer three questions: (1) To what extent does a composite measure of ability affect an entrepreneur's earnings relative to employees? (2) Do different cognitive abilities (e.g. math ability,...

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Risk Aversion and Sorting into Public Sector Employment

Pfeifer, Christian - 2021

This research note uses two German data sets - the large-scale German Socio-Economic Panel and unique data from own student questionnaires - to analyse the relationship between risk aversion and the choice for public sector employment. Main results are: (1) more risk averse individuals sort into...

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Occupational Attainment and Immigrant Economic Progress in Australia

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2021

Using data from the 2001 Australian Census of Population and Housing, on adult men in full-time employment, this paper augments a conventional human capital earnings function with information on occupations. It also estimates models of occupational attainment. The results from both the earnings...

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Entrepreneurship, Wage Employment and Control in an Occupational Choice Framework

Douhan, Robin - 2009

We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...

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Educational Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap for Recent College Graduates in Colombia

Cepeda Emiliani, Laura - 2012

graduates who have a formal job and who have been in the labor market at most one year. Using unique, administrative datasets …

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Risky business : the role of individual risk attitudes in occupational choice

Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2010

This study analyzes the relationship of individual risk attitudes and occupational sorting with respect to occupational … effects of personality traits in labor market decisions. -- Risk attitudes ; occupational sorting ; earnings risk ; mundlak …Diese Studie analysiert den Zusammenhang von individueller Risikoeinstellung und Berufswahl anhand des Lohnrisikos …

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Does employer learning vary by occupation?

Mansour, Hani - 2010

Models in which employers learn about the productivity of young workers, such as Altonji and Pierret (2001), have two principal implications: First, the distribution of wages becomes more dispersed as a cohort of workers gains experience; second, the coefficient on a variable that employers...

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