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Overeducation and ethnic minorities in Britain

Battu, Harminder; Sloane, Peter J. - 2002

This study examines the utilisation of education across ethnic minorities in the UK. In particular, we examine the incidence of mismatch between educational qualifications and occupational attainment, the determinants of any mismatch and the consequences for earnings and other labour market...

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A biological basis for the gender wage gap : fecundity and age and educational hypogamy

Polachek, Solomon W.; Zhang, Xu; Zhou, Xing - 2014

This paper shows how a shorter fecundity horizon for females (a biological constraint) leads to age and educational disparities between husbands and wives. Empirical support is based on data from a natural experiment commencing before and ending after China's 1980 one-child law. The results...

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IAB employment subsample 1975-1995 : opportunities for analysis provided by the anonymised subsample

Klose, Christoph; Haas, Anette; Bender, Stefan - 2000

The IAB employment subsample is now available for researchers in a third, anonymised version. Following the so-called basic file and the regional file from the IAB employment subsample, which encompassed the years 1975 to 1990, the actualized version of the basic file covers now the years 1975...

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Disability and skill mismatch

Jones, Melanie K.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2009

. -- Skills ; disability ; job matching ; earnings ; job satisfaction …

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Disability and job mismatches in the Australian labour market

Jones, Melanie; Mavromaras, Kostas G.; Sloane, Peter J.; … - 2011

We examine the relationship between disability, job mismatch, earnings and job satisfaction, using panel estimation on data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey (2001-2008). While we do not find any relationship between work-limiting disability and...

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The timing of careers and human capital depreciation

Kunze, Astrid - 2002

This paper explores the short and long run effects of career interruptions on wages for young skilled workers in West …

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Micro foundations of earnings differences

Das, Tirthatanmoy; Polachek, Solomon W. - 2017

knowledge are most influential in explaining earnings variations. Marketable skills actually acquired in school depend on these …

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Wages and seniority when coworkers matter : estimating a joint production economy using Norwegian administrative data

Ferrall, Christopher; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sørensen, … - 2009

We develop an equilibrium model of wages and estimate it using administrative data from Norway. Coworkers interact … through a task-assignment model, and wages are determined through multilateral bargaining over the surplus that accrues to the … workforce. Seniority affects wages through workplace output and relative bargaining power. These channels are separately …

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Offshoring and labor markets

Hummels, David; Munch, Jakob Roland; Chong, Xiang - 2016

In this paper we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage, employment and displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring, organizing our discussion around the three key elements of offshoring: that it involves intermediate inputs for...

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Employment verification mandates and the labor market outcomes of likely unauthorized and native workers

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Bansak, Cynthia - 2013

impact that the enactment of various types of E-verify mandates may have on the employment and wages of these two populations … likelihood of native workers. Impacts on wages are positive for likely unauthorized women suggesting a large labor supply … reduction. For native-born workers, hourly wages also increase and provide some evidence of substitutability of unauthorized …

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