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Gender differences in the intergenerational earnings mobility of second-generation migrants

Flake, Regina - 2011

Zweitgenerationseinwanderern in Deutschland. Die Analyse berücksichtigt explizit Einflüsse wie das Heiratsverhalten von Migranten oder die …This study analyzes gender differences in the intergenerational earnings mobility of second-generation migrants in … Germany. The analysis takes into account potential influences like assortative mating in the form of ethnic marriages and the …

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Gender differences in the earnings mobility of migrants

Flake, Regina - 2012

This study analyzes gender differences in the intergenerational earnings mobility of second-generation migrants in … Germany. Thereby it takes into account the influence of assortative mating and the parental integration. First … differences in the mobility - neither between natives and migrants nor between men and women. Second, intergenerational changes in …

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Gender Differences in the Intergenerational Earnings Mobility of Second-Generation Migrants

Flake, Regina - 2011

This study analyzes gender differences in the intergenerational earnings mobility of second-generation migrants in … Germany. The analysis takes into account potential influences like assortative mating in the form of ethnic marriages and the … mobility – neither between natives and migrants nor between men and women. Second, intergenerational changes in the relative …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014177660

Educational attainment and labor market performance : an analysis of immigrants in France

Akgüç, Mehtap; Ferrer, Ana M. - 2015

Using a recent survey of immigrants to France, we provide a detailed analysis of the educational attainment and labor market performance of various sub-population groups in France. Our results indicate that immigrants to France are less educated than the native born and that these differences...

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Is longer education a substitute for job search through social contacts?

Müller, Dagmar - 2021

This paper investigates whether longer upper secondary education affects the role of parents in the job finding process. Previous research has shown that less educated workers rely more on contacts, and theory suggests that education and social connections can be substituted as signals of...

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Family, community and life-cycle earnings : evidence from siblings and youth peers

Bingley, Paul; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2017

accounts for the joint earnings dynamics of siblings and youth community peers. We are the first to decompose the sibling …

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The timing of puberty and gender differences in educational achievement

Koerselman, Kristian; Pekkarinen, Tuomas - 2017

In this paper, we study the effect of the timing of puberty on educational achievement and examine to what extent the gender differences in the timing of puberty can explain gender differences in achievement. We use British cohort data that combine information on pubertal development with test...

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Does the choice of reference levels of education matter in the ORU earnings equation?

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation/under-education (ORU) literature are sensitive to whether the usual or reference levels of education are measured using the Realized Matches or Worker Self-Assessment methods. The...

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The effects of school quality in the origin on the payoff to schooling for immigrants

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2010

The payoff to schooling among the foreign born in the US is only around one-half of the payoff for the native born. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The paper uses the Over-education/ Required...

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Wage gaps between native and migrant graduates of higher education institutions in the Netherlands

Gheasi, Masood; Nijkamp, Peter; Rietveld, Piet - 2015

present paper takes a look at wage differences between natives and migrants who are equally educated. This reduces potential … skills biases in our analysis. We apply a Mincer equation in estimating the wage differences between natives and migrants. In … Dutch labor market, especially for migrants with parents from non-OECD countries. …

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