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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...
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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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This study investigates the incidence of overeducation among graduate workers in 21 European Union countries and its underlying factors based on the European Labor Force Survey 2016. Although controlling for a wide range of covariates, the particular interest lies in the role of fields of study...
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This study investigates the incidence of overeducation among graduate workers in 21 EU countries and its underlying factors based on the European Labor Force Survey 2016 (EU-LFS). Although controlling for a wide range of covariates, the particular interest lies in the role of fields of study for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011897259
This study investigates the incidence of overeducation among graduate workers in 21 EU countries and its underlying factors based on the European Labor Force Survey 2016 (EU-LFS). Although controlling for a wide range of covariates, the particular interest lies in the role of fields of study for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011900158
We document the skill content of college majors as perceived by employers and expressed in the near universe of U.S. online job ads. Social and organizational skills are general in that they are sought by employers of almost all college majors, whereas other skills are more specialized. In turn,...
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This policy analysis discusses issues regarding the migration to Europe of large numbers of immigrants and refugees who …
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We examine the heterogeneous impacts of foreign language use at work on earnings of both native-born workers and … work is found to have an unambiguously positive impact on their earnings (2% on average). Second, for foreign-born workers … language knowledge of low-educated migrants causes these results, as immigrants for whom themother tongue is similar to the …
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We examine how those re-entering paid-employment after a brief self-employment spell fare upon return using data from the European Community Household Panel. Unconditionally, those re-entering paid-employment appear to have considerably lower wages than those staying in the wage sector. This...
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, no statistically significant gap in earnings across immigrants and natives remains. These findings indicate that, despite … similar cognitive skill levels and background traits, immigrants and natives may apply their skills at work to different … explaining the immigrant-native wage gap. This leads us to conclude that immigrants are not yet sufficiently well integrated in …
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