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Peers' Composition Effects in the Short and in the Long Run: College Major, College Performance and Income
Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2015
In this paper we use a newly constructed dataset following 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to labor market and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic performance and their labor market income. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307336
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The Association between Immigration and Labor Market Outcomes in the United States
Basso, Gaetano; Peri, Giovanni - 2015
In this paper we present important correlations between immigration and labor market outcomes of native workers in the US. We use data on local labor markets, states and regions from the Census and American Community Survey over the period 1970-2010. We first look at simple correlations and then...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401693
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Employment and Wage Effects of Privatization: Evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
the negligible consequences of domestic privatization result from effects on scale, productivity, and costs that are large … outcome of foreign ownership results from a substantial scale-expansion effect that dominates the productivity …-improvement effect, and the positive wage outcome from productivity improvement dominating the cost-reduction effect. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233777
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Immigrants' Effect on Native Workers: New Analysis on Longitudinal Data
Foged, Mette; Peri, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Using longitudinal data on the universe of workers in Denmark during the period 1991-2008 we track the labor market outcomes of low skilled natives in response to an exogenous inflow of low skilled immigrants. We innovate on previous identification strategies by considering immigrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011228302
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Immigrants' Effect on Native Workers: New Analysis on Longitudinal Data
Foged, Mette; Peri, Giovanni - 2015
Using longitudinal data on the universe of workers in Denmark during the period 1991-2008 we track the labor market outcomes of low skilled natives in response to an exogenous inflow of low skilled immigrants. We innovate on previous identification strategies by considering immigrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531661