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Project (RUMiC) to explore whether native-place wage discrimination affects migrant workers in China's urban labor markets. We … analyze the question of wage discrimination among migrants by estimating wage equations for men and women, controlling for … provinces of origin. We find no systemic differences by province of origin in the hourly wages of male and female migrants …
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and the percentage of migrants employed at a workplace. We find wages are lower in workplaces employing a higher …Using nationally representative workplace data for Britain we identify the partial correlation between workplace wages … percentage of migrants, but only when those migrants are non-EEA migrants. However, the effects are no longer apparent when we …
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-economic endowments or to discrimination. We use the well-known econometric technique, developed by Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973), to … determine the extent of discrimination. As data on earnings are available only for employed, we adopt a two-stage Heckman … (SLFS). The decomposition of the earnings differential reveals that the discrimination effect plays a more important role in …
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An important underlying determinant of wage discrimination, as well as the gender wage gap is the way the labor market …
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This paper investigates how rural-urban income differentials interact with the risk coping motive to shape households' migration behavior. Using a model of migration behavior under agricultural income risk, our theoretical results suggest that while income differentials remain crucial in...
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Upon arrival to a new country, many immigrants face job downgrading, a phenomenon describing workers being in jobs far below where they would be assigned based on their skills. Downgrading leads to immigrants receiving lower returns to the same skills than natives. The level of downgrading could...
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from the impact for already settled migrants. We analyze the effect of migration on wages within cells of education …, economic and social reasons. This paper is the first to disentangle the impact of migration on wages for native Costa Rican …, immigration has no effect on the wages of both natives and migrant workers with comparable skills for the period 2011 to 2019. The …
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In China hukou (the household registration system) imposes barriers on permanent migration from rural to urban areas …. Using large surveys for 2002, we find that permanent migrants number about 100 million persons and constitute approximately …'s Liberation Army are important career paths towards urbanisation and permanent migrants are much better-off then their …
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China's dynamic Internet job board labor market. It examines how discrimination based on these attributes varies over …
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zero to positive correlation with changes in native wages and native employment, in aggregate and by skill group. We …
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