-Under-Required education approach to occupations, a new decomposition technique developed especially for this approach, and data from the 2000 …This paper is concerned with why immigrants appear to have consistently lower partial effects of schooling on earnings …" (occupational norm) level of education, but experience a smaller negative effect of years of undereducation, and to a lesser extent …

and women, compared to non-Jews, with additional analyses of earnings, self-employment, and wealth. The Jews in Colonial … of the 20th century their descendants achieved very impressive improvements in earnings and occupational status … compared to 20 percent of white non-Jewish men were in professional occupations. Among working women in 2000, 51 percent of the …

This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation …/required education/undereducation (ORU) framework (Hartog, 2000) and a decomposition of the native-born/foreign-born differential in the …

This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation/under-education … (ORU) literature are sensitive to whether the usual or reference levels of education are measured using the Realized …, by level of skill, and by occupation. While point estimates differ, particularly when earnings equations are estimated …

earnings. This ineffective use of surplus education appears across all occupations and high-skilled education levels. Although … the impact of this mismatch on the earnings, of high-skilled adult male immigrants in the US labor market. Analyses for … high-skilled adult male native-born workers are also presented for comparison purposes. The results show that over-education …

education and health. We concentrate on ergonomic, environmental, psychical, social and time demands. Merging the German … dataset to analyze the mediating role of occupational demands in the relationship between education and health status on the … one hand and education and health behavior (BMI and smoking) on the other. We base our analyses on the entire working …

This paper examines the determinants of intergenerational correlation of education in rural China by using a data from … a large survey of households. Three generations who completed education during the period from pre-1949 to the beginning … of the 2000s are included. The focus is on the influence of family class status (chengfen) on offspring education. Our …

In this paper, we discuss the quest for more and more education and its implications for social mobility. We document … increases in education acquisition by people from relatively rich family backgrounds. At the same time, wage differentials for … the more educated have risen. Putting these two together (more education for people from richer backgrounds and an …