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This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among … married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community Surveys. Among immigrants, better job opportunities, measured by … live in states with a higher divorce rate are more likely to be divorced. Thus, currently being divorced among immigrants …
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A large body of literature shows that first-generation immigrants born in developing countries experience a higher … comes to the overeducation of second-generation immigrants. Using a matched employer-employee database for Belgium over the … immigrants. …
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As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working ….5% for first- and second-generation immigrants, respectively. However, controlling for a wide range of observables (e.g. age … first-generation immigrants born in developing countries still experience a sizeable adjusted wage gap (2.7%), there is no …
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We examine the ability of immigrants to transfer the occupational human capital they acquired prior to immigration. We … immigrants to Canada were employed in source country occupations that typically require high levels of cognitive skills, but rely … and manual skills, these discrepancies are larger among immigrants with limited language fluency. …
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This paper is a review of the literature in economics up to the early 1980s on the issue of estimating the earnings return to schooling and labor market experience. It begins with a presentation of Adam Smith's (1776) analysis of wage determination, with the second of his five points on...
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This paper studies the occupational selection among generations of immigrants in the United States and links their … time that immigrants spend in the US and over generations. Information friction may be an explanation. …
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We provide first evidence of the impact of over-education, among natives and immigrants, on firm-level productivity and … higher for natives than for immigrants. However, since the differential in productivity gains associated with over …-education between natives and immigrants outweighs the corresponding wage premium differential, we conclude - based on OLS and dynamic …
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We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate … immigrants from that country. By hiring immigrants, a firm may access foreign knowledge and networks needed to overcome …, we estimate the causal effects of a firm’s bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We …
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We examine whether employment discrimination increased after the 2016 presidential election in the United States. We … difference between white and Somali American applicants increased by 8 percentage points. The increased discrimination … 2018 to test for seasonality in discrimination; there was no substantial increase in discrimination after the 2017 election. …
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We examine how the gender of business-owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working in their firms. Using Finnish register data and employing firm fixed effects, we find that the gender pay gap is - starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent - two to...
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