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The Wage Performance of Immigrant Women : Full-Time Jobs, Part-Time Jobs, and the Role of Selection
Dustmann, Christian; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2021
This paper contrasts labour participation behaviour and wages of native and immigrant women. Since the impact of family structure on labor supply differs between natives and immigrants, we explicitly distinguish between part-time and full-time jobs. The choice of jobs is accounted for by an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321056
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Workplace segregation and the labour market performance of immigrants
Willis, Sébastien - 2022
Immigrants are more likely to have conationals as colleagues, however the consequences of such workplace segregation is an open question. I study the effect of the conational share in an immigrant's first job on subsequent labour market outcomes using register data from Germany. I instrument for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013358726
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Evolution of the Chinese rural-urban migrant labor market from 2002 to 2007
Qu, Zhaopeng Frank; Zhao, Zhong - 2011
sets. Our focus is on the rural-urban migration decision, the wage structure of migrants, the urban labor market … segmentation between migrants and urban natives, and the changes of these aspects from 2002 to 2007. We find that prior migration … to 2007. Our results show that there is a significant increase in wages among both migrants and urban natives over this 5 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009124150
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Is there an informal employment wage penalty In Egypt?
Tansel, Aysıt; Keskin, Halil Ibrahim; Ozdemir, Zeynel … - 2015
This paper considers the private sector wage earners in Egypt and examine their wage distribution during 1998 - 2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We first estimate Mincer wage equations both at the mean and at differ ent quantiles of the wage distribution taking into account...
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Occupational Gender Composition and Wages in Sweden
Hansen, Jorgen; Wahlberg, Roger - 2021
We estimate the relationship between wages and occupational gender segregation in Sweden. Because of high wage equality in Sweden compared to the U.S., we expect a lower wage penalty of job femaleness in Sweden than in the U.S. Our results supports this hypothesis. We also investigate how the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321219
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Native-immigrant wage differentials and occupational segregation in the Greek labour market
Demoussis, Michael P.; Giannakopoulos, N.; … - In: Applied economics 42 (2010) 7/9, pp. 1015-1027
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The wage performance of immigrant women : full-time jobs, part-time jobs, and the role of selection
Dustmann, Christian; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2000
This paper contrasts labour participation behaviour and wages of native and immigrant women. Since the impact of family structure on labor supply differs between natives and immigrants, we explicitly distinguish between part-time and full-time jobs. The choice of jobs is accounted for by an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339685
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Which factors drive the skill-mix of migrants in the long-run?
Beerli, Andreas; Indergand, Ronald - 2014
A pervasive, yet little acknowledged feature of international migration to developed countries is that newly arriving immigrants are increasingly highly skilled since the 1980s. This paper analyses the determinants of changes in the skill composition of immigrants using a framework suggested by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010437204
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Which factors drive the skill-mix of migrants in the long-run?
Beerli, Andreas; Indergand, Ronald - 2014 - 1st December 2014
A pervasive, yet little acknowledged feature of international migration to developed countries is that newly arriving immigrants are increasingly highly skilled since the 1980s. This paper analyses the determinants of changes in the skill composition of immigrants using a framework suggested by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010478715
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How Do Regulated and Unregulated Labor Markets Respond to Shocks? Evidence from Immigrants During the Great Recession
Guriev, Sergei - 2018
What is the role of formal labor market institutions in the impact of crises on wages and employment? We study wage adjustment during the recent crisis in Italy's regulated labor market using the unregulated informal labor market as a counterfactual. We use a unique dataset on immigrant workers...
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