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Individualism, human capital formation, and labor market success
Hartinger, Katharina; Resnjanskij, Sven; Ruhose, Jens; … - 2021
There is an ongoing debate about the economic effects of individualism. We establish that individualism leads to better educational and labor market outcomes. Using data from the largest international adult skill assessment, we identify the effects of individualism by exploiting variation...
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Labor market competition and the assimilation of immigrants
Albert, Christoph; Glitz, Albrecht; Llull, Joan - 2021
In this paper, we show that the wage assimilation of immigrants is the result of the intricate interplay between … substitutes, increasing immigrant inflows widen the wage gap between them. Using a simple production function framework, we show …-native wage gap in the United States between the 1960s and 1990s arrival cohorts. Once competition effects and compositional …
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An unfulfilled promise? : higher education quality and professional underemployment in Peru
Yamada, Gustavo; Lavado, Pablo; Martínez, Joan J. - 2015
Despite the high growth of the Peruvian economy during the last decade, college graduates are facing increasing difficulties to find occupations that match their higher educational background, skills and educational investments. This scenario is embodied in the "professional underemployment"...
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The occupational attainment of American Jewish men in the mid-19th century
Chiswick, Barry R.; Robinson, RaeAnn H. - 2023
This paper is concerned with analyzing the occupational status of American Jewish men compared to other free men in the mid-19th century to help fill a gap in the literature. It does this by using the 1/100 microdata sample from the 1850 Census of Population, the first census to ask occupation....
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How substitutable are workers? : evidence from worker deaths
Jäger, Simon; Heining, Jörg - 2022
deceased see positive wage effects; coworkers in other occupations experience wage decreases when a high-skilled or specialized …
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The relation between skills and job security : identifying the contractual return to skills
Diris, Ron; Vliet, Olaf van - 2022
"contractual return to skills" differs substantially from the traditional wage return to skills across countries. We find …
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