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Housing demolition and occupational mobility : evidence from China
Wang, Chuhong; Wang, Yonghua; Liu, Xingfei; Zhong, Jiatong - 2022
in China. We exploit housing demolition events as a quasi-natural experiment and apply a two-way fixed effects approach … demolition creates skill waste by making individuals less likely to work; while on the intensive margin, housing demolition leads … demolition influences internal migration flow or migrant workers' occupational mobility. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470094
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Technological change and skill obsolescence : the case of German apprenticeship training
Blechinger, Doris; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 1996
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428051
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Technological change and skill obsolescence : the case of German apprenticeship training
Blechinger, Doris; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 1996
The paper analyses the applicability of vocational training and the earnings of apprentices using survey data from West Germany in 1979, 1985/86 and 1991/92. The applicability has decreased remarkably between 1979 and 1991/92. The objective of the analysis is a survey-data-based assessment of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011620781
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Immigrants' assimilation process in a segmented labor market
Alcobendas, Miguel Angel; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2009
While much of the literature on immigrants' assimilation has focused on countries with a large tradition of receiving immigrants and with flexible labor markets, very little is known on how immigrants adjust to other types of host economies. With its severe dual labor market, and an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003896169
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Eastern partnership migrants in Germany : outcomes, potentials and challenges
Biavaschi, Costanza; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 7, pp. 1-20
migrants experience worse labor market outcomes than other migrant groups, but current and potential migrants hold … qualifications in those areas were skill shortages are expected. Therefore, the monitoring and supervision of EaP integration will be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010532218
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International migration as occupational mobility
Lillard, Dean R.; Manzoni, Anna - 2012
We investigate whether Germans immigrants to the US work in higher-status occupations than they would have had they remained in Germany. We account for potential bias from selective migration. The probability of migration is identified using life-cycle and cohort variation in economic conditions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009659862
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Eastern partnership migrants in Germany : outcomes, potentials and challenges
Biavaschi, Costanza; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013
migrants experience worse labor market outcomes than other migrant groups, but current and potential migrants hold … qualifications in those areas were skill shortages are expected. Therefore, the monitoring and supervision of EaP integration will be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229297
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Occupational mobility of immigrants in a low skilled economy : the Spanish case
Simón, Hipólito; Ramos, Raúl; Sanromá, Esteban - 2011
We analyze the occupational mobility of immigrants between their origin countries and Spain and its determinants. We use microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes to compute an internationally harmonized occupational status index (ISEI) that permits to quantify and properly analyze...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009235216
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Occupational Mobility of Immigrants in a Low Skilled Economy : The Spanish Case
Simon, Hipolito - 2011
We analyze the occupational mobility of immigrants between their origin countries and Spain and its determinants. We use microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes to compute an internationally harmonized occupational status index (ISEI) that permits to quantify and properly analyze...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127919
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International Migration as Occupational Mobility
Lillard, Dean R. - 2012
We investigate whether Germans immigrants to the US work in higher-status occupations than they would have had they remained in Germany. We account for potential bias from selective migration. The probability of migration is identified using life-cycle and cohort variation in economic conditions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098881