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Long-term impact of youth minimum wages : evidence from two decades of individual longitudinal data
Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2009
This paper quantifies the long-run impact of exposure to youth minimum wages and sheds light on its mechanisms. It uses remarkable longitudinal data spanning for twenty years and explores legislative changes that define groups of teenagers exposed for different durations. After controlling for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003858862
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Can compulsory military service raise civilian wages? : evidence from the peacetime draft in Portugal
Card, David E.; Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2011
Although the practice of military conscription was widespread during most of the past century, credible evidence on the effects of mandatory service is limited. Angrist (1990) showed that the Vietnam-era draft in the U.S. lowered the early-career wages of conscripts, a finding he attributed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009315484
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Are older workers worthy of their pay? : an empirical investigation of age-productivity and age-wage nexuses
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Varejão, José M. - 2010
Using longitudinal employer-employee data spanning over a 22-year period, we compare age-wage and age-productivity profiles and find that productivity increases until the age range of 50-54, whereas wages peak around the age 40-44. At younger ages, wages increase in line with productivity gains...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008810186
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Everything you always wanted to know about sex discrimination
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Portugal, Pedro - 2012
Earlier literature on the gender pay gap has taught us that occupations matter and so do firms. However, the role of the firm has received little scrutiny; occupations have most often been coded in a rather aggregate way, lumping together different jobs; and the use of samples of workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683245
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Labor mobility and innovation in Africa
Mbaye, Linguère Mously; Okara, Assi; Tani, Massimiliano - 2022
We develop a theoretical model to investigate whether short-term mobility differentially affects innovation in product …, and the United Nations. We find that labor mobility positively affects innovation: on average, a 10% increase in the flow … products/services or process, supporting the use of labor mobility as an effective mechanism to diffuse productive knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012805095
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The impact of an un(der)funded inclusive education policy: evidence from the 2013 China Education Panel Survey
Tani, Massimiliano; Zhu, Yu; Xu, Lei - 2021
Using the 2013 China Education Panel Survey (CEPS), we study the impact of a 2008 inclusive education policy, through which the central government mandated urban public schools to exempt migrant children from tuition and temporary schooling fees. Whereas the non-disclosure rule regarding...
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Selective immigration policies, occupational licensing, and the quality of migrants' education-occupation match
Tani, Massimiliano - 2018
This paper studies occupational licensing as a possible cause of poor labour market outcomes among economic migrants. The analysis uses panel data from Australia, which implements one of the world's largest selective immigration programmes, and applies both cross-sectional and panel estimators....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131510
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Skilled migration policy and the labour market performance of immigrants
Tani, Massimiliano - 2017
This paper studies whether migration policy, besides managing a country's population size, is a suitable tool to influence immigrants' labour market outcomes. To do so, it uses a migration policy change that occurred in Australia in the late 1990s and data collected by the Longitudinal Survey of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785580
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The returns to schooling unveiled
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Portugal, Pedro; … - 2018
(the employer). We combine data of remarkable quality - exhaustive longitudinal linked employer-employee data on Portugal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011819808
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Selective immigration, occupational licensing, and labour market outcomes of foreign-trained migrants
Tani, Massimiliano - 2018
This paper studies occupational licensing as a possible cause of poor labour market outcomes among economic migrants. The analysis uses panel data from Australia, which implements one of the world's largest selective immigration programmes, and applies both cross-sectional and panel estimators....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011803334