Search Results - subject:"Work transition"

Does Federally-Funded Job Training Work? Nonexperimental Estimates of WIA Training Impacts Using Longitudinal Data on Workers and Firms

Anderson, Fredrick; Holzer, Harry J.; Lane, Julia; … - 2022

We study the job training provided under the US Workforce Investment Act (WIA) to adults and dislocated workers in two states. Our substantive contributions center on impacts estimated non-experimentally using administrative data. These impacts compare WIA participants who do and do not receive...

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Skill Downgrading Among Refugees and Economic Immigrants in Germany : Evidence from the Syrian Refugee Crisis

Nikolov, Plamen; Salarpour Goodarzi, Leila - 2022

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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The Millennials' Transition from School to Work

wong, Yuet-Yee Linda; Bowlus, Audra J. - 2022

This is the first paper that studies Millennials' school-to-work transition. Based on a dataset that circumvents the …

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Off to a Bad Start : Youth Nonemployment and Labor Market Outcomes Later in Life

Filomena, Mattia; Giorgetti, Isabella; Picchio, Matteo - 2022

We estimate the effect of nonemployment experienced by Italian youth after leaving secondary school on subsequent labor market outcomes. We focus on the impact on earnings and labor market participation both in the short- and in the long-term, up to 25 years since school completion. By...

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Childcare Constraints on Immigrant Integration

Guirola, Luis; Sánchez-Domínguez, María - 2022

While motherhood is one of the main reasons for the persistence of gender gaps, its impact on the rising share of immigrant mothers in Europe is less well understood. This paper asks how the burden of childcare affects the labor market integration of immigrants. To identify the contribution of...

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The Returns to Work Experience and Occupational Tasks of Mothers

Belley, Philippe; Jiao, Yang - 2022

Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, we show that returns to wage growth of work experience for mothers are lower than those women with no child even when controlling for accumulated work experience and tenure. This is not fully explained by self-selection into...

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Sometimes it Works! The Effect of a Reform of the Short Vocational Track on School-to-Work Transition

Comi, Simona; Grasseni, Mara; Origo, Federica - 2022

This paper studies the impact on the length of school-to-work transition of a reform that extended from two to three … positive impact and reduced school-to-work transition by around 5 months (a 24% reduction). Moreover, the new short vocational … track proved to be extremely effective for migrants and females, whose school-to-work transition was reduced by 1.4 years …

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The Labor Market Integration of Syrian Refugees in Turkey

Demirci, Murat; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2022

Turkey hosts the largest population of refugees globally; however, we know little about their labor market outcomes at the national level. We use the 2018 round of the Turkey Demographic and Health Survey, which includes a representative sample of Syrian refugees in Turkey for the first time, to...

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Scared Straight? Threat and Assimilation of Refugees in Germany

Jaschke, Philipp; Sardoschau, Sulin; Tabellini, Marco - 2022

This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and on economic assimilation of refugees, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in their allocation across German regions between 2013 and 2016. We combine novel survey data on cultural preferences and economic outcomes...

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The Duration of the School-to-Work Transition in Italy and in Other European Countries : A Flexible Baseline Hazard Interpretation

Pastore, Francesco; Quintano, Claudio; Rocca, Antonella - 2022

Purpose: The Italian school-to-work transition (STWT) is astonishingly slow and long in comparison to the other EU …

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