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Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation : An Analysis for Germany

Basilio, Leilanie - 2010

This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...

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A "glass-ceiling" effect for immigrants in the Italian labour market?

Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Lucifora, Claudio; Pagani, Laura - 2012

This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the (imperfect) international transferability of human capital. Data are drawn from the 2009 Italian Labour Force Survey (LFS). We show that returns to human capital are considerably lower...

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Limits to wage growth : understanding the wage divergence between immigrants and natives

Jain, Apoorva; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2017

This study finds evidence of wage divergence between immigrants and natives in Germany using a country-wide household panel from 1984 to 2014. We incorporate the possibility of wage divergence into a two-period model of economic assimilation by modeling the differences in the efficiency of human...

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Immigrant Wages in the Spanish Labor Market. Does the Origin of Human Capital Matter? (Los Salarios de los Inmigrantes en el Mercado de Trabajo Español. ¿Importa el Origen del Capi...

Sanroma, Esteban; Ramos, Raul; Simon, Hipolito - 2011

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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How Much Did Immigrant "Quality" Decline in Late Nineteenth Century America?

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2001

Early twentieth century observers argued that recent American immigrants were inferior, and in particular less skilled, than the old. I estimate wage equations for 1909 allowing for different effects by nationality and for different characteristics on arrival. I then apply the estimated wage...

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The Portability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation : Evidence for Spain

Sanroma, Esteban; Ramos, Raul; Simon, Hipolito - 2021

The existing literature on immigrant assimilation has highlighted the imperfect portability of human capital acquired by immigrants in their country of origin (Chiswick, 1978; Friedberg, 2000). This would explain the low levels of assimilation upon arrival in the new country, as well as the wide...

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Human Capital Externalities and the Urban Wage Premium : Two Literatures and Their Interrelations

Halfdanarson, Benedikt; Heuermann, Daniel F.; Suedekum, Jens - 2021

In this paper we survey the recent developments in two empirical literatures at the crossroads of labor and urban economics: Studies about localized human capital externalities (HCE) and about the urban wage premium (UWP). After surveying the methods and main results of each of these two...

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Beyond the mean gender wage gap : decomposition of differences in wage distributions using quantile regression

Heinze, Anja - 2010

between male and female employees in Germany. I extend the traditional decomposition to disentangle the effect of human … decomposition across the whole wage distribution with the method proposed by Machado and Mata (2005). Thereby, I take into account … differential. -- gender wage gap ; decomposition ; quantile regression …

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Glass ceiling effect and earnings : the gender pay gap in managerial positions in Germany

Busch, Anne; Holst, Elke - 2009

differ only marginally in their human capital endowments. The Oaxaca/Blinder decomposition shows that the gender pay gap in … them breaking the glass ceiling. -- Gender pay gap ; managerial positions ; segregation ; Oaxaca/Blinder decomposition …

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Evaluating the effect of beauty on labor market outcomes : a review of the literature

Liu, Xing Michelle; Sierminska, Eva - 2014

An important underlying determinant of wage discrimination, as well as the gender wage gap is the way the labor market rewards individual physical attractiveness. This article surveys the extensive empirical literature of the effect of physical attractiveness on labor market outcomes. Particular...

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