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Hit Twice? Danish Evidence on the Double-Negative Effect on the Wages of Immigrant Women

Nielsen, Helena S; Rosholm, Michael; Smith, Nina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

In this paper, we investigate whether there is a double-negative effect on the wages of immigrant women in Denmark stemming from a negative effect from both gender and foreign country of origin. We estimate separate wage equations for Danes and a number of immigrant groups correcting for sample...

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Hit Twice? Danish Evidence on the Double-Negative Effect on the Wages of Immigrant Women

Husted, Leif; Skyt Nielsen, Helena; Rosholm, Michael; … - Institut for Marketing og Organisation, Aarhus Universitet - 2000

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Estimating Labour Market Discrimination with Selectivity Corrected Wage Equations: Methodological Considerations and an Illustration from Israel

Neuman, Shoshana; Oaxaca, Ronald L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

This paper presents a modified and improved methodology for the decomposition of wage differentials between two groups of workers into an endowment component and a discrimination component. The standard decomposition technique does not take into account different probabilities of entering the...

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Wage Differentials in the 1990s in Israel: Endowments, Discrimination, and Selectivity

Neuman, Shoshana; Oaxaca, Ronald L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

The purpose of this paper is to investigate wage structures of professional workers in the Israeli labor market, using data from the most recent 1995 Census and correcting for selectivity at the stage of entrance into the occupation. The sample of professionals is decomposed into several...

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National Origin Differences in Wages and Hierarchical Positions - Evidence on French Full-Time Male Workers from a matched Employer-Employee Dataset

AEBERHARDT, R.; POUGET, J. - Département des Études Économiques d'Ensemble (D3E), … - 2010

This paper estimates the differences in wages and hierarchical positions that can be attributed to national origin in France. Our data come from a matched employer-employee wage survey performed in 2002. The business survey provides very reliable wage data which are matched to many...

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The transition to post-industrial BMI values among US children

Komlos, John; Breitfelder, Ariane; Sunder, Marco - 2008

Background: The trend in the BMI values of US children has not been estimated very convincingly because of the absence of longitudinal data. Our object is to estimate time series of BMI values by birth cohorts instead of measurement years. Methods: We use five regression models to estimate the...

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Are employability skills learned in US youth education and training programs?

Lerman, Robert Irving - In: IZA journal of labor policy 2 (2013), pp. 1-20

examines the skill-enhancing effects of several youth programs and demonstrations, with an emphasis on how well these efforts …

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Connecting the disconnected : improving education and employment outcomes among disadvantaged youth

Edelman, Peter B.; Holzer, Harry J. - 2013

In this paper we will briefly review recent trends in employment outcomes for disadvantaged youth, focusing … education and employment outcomes, both among in - school youth who are at risk of dropping out and becoming disconnected as … well as out - of - school youth who have already done so; 2) Policies to increase earnings and incent more labor force …

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Collective self-esteem and online shopping attitudes among college students : comparison between the US and India

Khare, Arpita; Sadachar, Amrut - In: Journal of international consumer marketing 26 (2014) 2, pp. 106-121

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Do reemployment programs for the unemployed work for youth? : evidence from the Great Recession in the United States

Michaelides, Marios; Mueser, Peter R.; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2020

We present experimental evidence on the effects of four U.S. reemployment programs for youth Unemployment Insurance (UI … that policymakers should require job counseling for youth UI recipients during recessions. …

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