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We investigate whether immigrant and minority workers' poor access to high-wage jobs - that is, glass ceilings - is … find that glass ceilings exist for some immigrant groups, and that they are driven in large measure by glass doors. For … some immigrant groups, the sorting of these workers across firms accounts for as much as half of the economy-wide wage …
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the returns to self-employment among low-skilled immigrants. We compare annual earnings and earnings growth of immigrant … financially rewarding option for most low-skilled immigrants. An exception is immigrant men, who are found to have higher earnings … business. We also find that most of the 20 percent male native-immigrant earnings gap among low-skilled business owners can be …
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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...
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of this research is disaggregating the sample into seven distinct immigrant groups (based on admission class) and second … and third-generation Canadians. Our results show that no immigrant group performs as well on literacy and numeracy tests …, our metric for success in the labour market. Of the immigrant subgroups, economic immigrants tend to have the highest test …
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We investigate whether immigrant and minority workers' poor access to high-wage jobs - that is, glass ceilings - is … find that glass ceilings exist for some immigrant groups, and that they are driven in large measure by glass doors. For … some immigrant groups, the sorting of these workers across firms accounts for as much as half of the economy-wide wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012724457
adaptation to the attitudes of the majority population closes the immigrant-native gap in risk proclivity, while stronger …
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immigrant labor supply shock on native competitors …
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immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with …
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that time, this dataset appeared to signal that there exists an immigrant effect independent of skill set (e.g., education …) that reduces the wages of native workers. Specifically, the indication was that the proportion of immigrant workers (p) is …
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The recent literature on overeducation has provided divergent results on whether or not overeducation bears an earnings penalty. In addition, few studies have considered overeducation among immigrants. This paper uses panel data analyses to investigate the match between education and occupation...
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