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application for occupational recognition. Our findings show substantial employment and wage gains from occupational recognition …. After three years, the full recognition of immigrants' foreign qualifications increases their employment rates by 24 … increase in employment is largely driven by a higher propensity to work in regulated occupations. Relating our findings to the …
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With the rapid increase in educational attainment, technological change, and greater job specialization, decisions regarding human capital investment are no longer exclusively about the quantity of education, but rather the type of education to obtain. The skills and knowledge acquired in...
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This paper uses firm level panel data of firm provided training to estimate its impact on productivity and wages. To this end the strategy proposed by Ackerberg, Caves and Frazer (2006) for estimating production functions to control for the endogeneity of input factors and training is applied....
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taxi driving have experienced negative employment trends. However, after passing the written taxi exams, immigrants …
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As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working-age population in the developed world, their labour market integration constitutes a key factor for fostering economic development and social cohesion. Using a granular, matched...
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As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working-age population in the developed world, their labour market integration constitutes a key factor for fostering economic development and social cohesion. Using a granular, matched...
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region in the World. Expected future levels of education, very young and youth population, youth employment and unemployment …
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factors such as barriers to more desirable salaried jobs. Using a long panel dataset from Ghana, we empirically investigate … the changing structure of earnings in self-employment relative to salaried work. Our analysis allows workers to sort into … self-employment for different reasons, including expected earnings differentials and endogenous capital accumulation whilst …
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push factors such as barriers to more desirable salaried jobs. Using data from Ghana, we investigate the changing structure … of earnings in self-employment relative to salaried work. We decompose earnings in a two-sector labour market allowing … against the grim view of self-employment as an occupation of last resort …
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