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This paper analyzes the long-term effects of graduating in a recession on earnings, job mobility, and employer characteristics for a large sample of Canadian college graduates using matched university-employer-employee data from 1982 to 1999. The results are used to assess the role of job...
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This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and benefits associated with this characteristic embodied in the...
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We use HILDA data from 2001 - 2006 to analyse the source of the gender wage gap across public- and private-sector wage … explaining relative wages. We find that, irrespective of labour market sector, the gender wage gap among low-paid, Australian … workers is more than explained by differences in wage-related characteristics...T …
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With the use of comparable data from seven West African capitals, we attempt to assess the rationale behind development policies targeting high rates of school enrolment through the prism of allocation of labour and returns to skills across the formal and informal sectors...
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Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity by distortingproduction choices. Firms facing (non-Coasean) worker dismissal costs will curtail hiringbelow efficient levels and retain unproductive workers, both of which should affectproductivity. These theoretical...
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are inconsistent with observed residual wage dispersion. Weaddress this issue by modeling skill development and duration … and search on the job are the main drivers behind our model’s empiricalsuccess in replicating wage dispersion (residual …
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Statistical Offices to look at the quality of thisproxy variable by investigating the link between the average wage in a firm and … new light on the role of highly qualified employees forsuccess on export markets that is not revealed by the average wage …
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developments in the estimationand analysis of models with high-dimensional fixed effects. Using wage regressions withcontrols for …
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We investigate the relationship between exporting, importing, and wage premia using a richmatched employer … set of worker- and firm-levelobservable and unobservable characteristics to the wage gap, and (ii) by controlling for … firm size and sales are, todifferent extents, important components of the wage gap both for exporters and importers …
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employment and wage practices of foreign and domestic firms in Brazil, using detailed matched firm-worker panel data... …
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