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males, including employment status, annual salary, hourly wage rate, and hours of work. Our findings indicate that potential … lower likelihood of employment, a lower salary, and reduced labor supply, but not necessarily a lower wage rate. We also …
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. Using data from the 1980-2000 U.S. censuses and the 2005-2010 American Community Surveys, we show that these wage premiums …
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This paper uses data from the 2010 American Community Survey (ACS) to study the returns to language skills of child and adult migrants in the US labor market. We employ an instrumental variable strategy, which exploits differences in language acquisition profiles between immigrants from English-...
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application for occupational recognition. Our findings show substantial employment and wage gains from occupational recognition ….After three years, the full recognition of immigrants' foreign qualifications increases their employment rates by 24.5 percentage … employment is largely driven by a higher propensity to work in regulated occupations. Relating our findings to the economic …
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This guide, updated for the 2016-17 job market season, describes the U.S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It provides data, reports findings from published papers, describes practical details, and includes links to online...
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This paper analyzes the impact of missionary activity on English language proficiency and labor market earnings of all immigrants to the United States by using the pooled files of the American Community Survey (2005-09). We consider the colonial heritage of the origin country to determine if it...
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The recent literature on overeducation has provided divergent results on whether or not overeducation bears an earnings penalty. In addition, few studies have considered overeducation among immigrants. This paper uses panel data analyses to investigate the match between education and occupation...
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This paper analyzes the effect on earnings of the matching of English language skills to occupational requirements. It uses data from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) database and a quot;Realized Matchesquot; procedure to quantify expected levels of English skills in each of over 500...
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and employment participation. Empirical evidence favors the "efficiency" over the "discrimination" channels of wage …This study finds evidence of wage divergence between immigrants and natives in Germany using a country-wide household … panel from 1984 to 2014. We incorporate the possibility of wage divergence into a two-period model of economic assimilation …
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give immigrants an advantage in terms occupational or wage assimilation (relative to their native counterparts) …
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