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Quality of work experience and economic development : estimates using Canadian immigrant data
Coulombe, Serge; Grenier, Gilles; Nadeau, Serge J. - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009428279
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595162
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Prior work experience and entrepreneurship : the careers of young entrepreneurs
Gendron-Carrier, Nicolas - 2023
I investigate the mechanisms that drive sorting into entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial success among young individuals. I use Canadian matched owner-employeremployee data to conduct my investigation. Empirically, older entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs who have previously worked in high-wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014279932
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ICT and the returns to schooling and job-specific experience
Kirby, Simon; Riley, Rebecca R. - In: National Institute economic review 201 (2007), pp. 76-85
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003505966
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How important is occupational experience in current Japan? : analysis with focus on occupation-specific human capital
Toda, Akihito - In: Japan labor review 8 (2011) 3, pp. 56-77
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009297197
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New evidence on international transferability of human capital
Gibbons, Eric M.; Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1/9, pp. 1-39
This article sheds new light on the portability of human capital. We estimate the returns to source country experiences, viz., general, occupation-specific, and task-specific experiences, using data from the New Immigrant Survey (NIS), conducted in 2003. While the "returns to general experience"...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012303199
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Education and Growth with Learning by Doing
Marconi, Gabriele - 2015
We develop a general equilibrium overlapping generations model which is based on the view that education makes workers more productive by increasing their ability to learn from work experience, rather than providing skills that directly increase productivity. One important implication of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021942
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Does national leaders’ work experience matter for economic growth?
Shi, Xiangyu - In: Economics letters 235 (2024), pp. 1-5
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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 - 2011
the US and Canada. We extend the IMG relicensing model of Kugler and Sauer (2005) to incorporate two different approaches … case of IMGs migrating to the US and Canada since the 1960s and evaluate the empirical predictions from the model based on … an analysis of the occupational outcomes of IMGs in Canada (where a point system has been in place) and in the US (where …
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