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This paper integrates two strands of literature on overskilling and disability using the 2004 British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS). It finds that the disabled are significantly more likely to be mismatched in the labour market, to suffer from a pay penalty and to have lower job...
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-native earnings gap across the entire earnings distribution, across continents of nationality and across cohorts of arrival in the UK … individual characteristics on earnings. This helped us to prevent selectivity biases such as cohort bias and survivor bias, which … are disproportionately non-white, suffer an earnings penalty in the labour market, whereas higher paid immigrants, whom …
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market consequences of that proficiency, as expressed in their earnings. Immigrants tend to take language differences across … other variables, and Economic incentives, including the effects of higher earnings and a longer expected duration of … residence. This model is shown to be robust for the several immigrant receiving countries studied. Earnings among immigrants are …
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acquiring destination language proficiency, with an emphasis on labor market outcomes, and in particular earnings. Factors that …
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clear finding is that mobility is associated with superior earnings outcomes, but principally through mobility as it relates …
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The paper estimates the returns to education for a cohort of individuals born in Britain in March 1958 who have been followed since birth until the age of 33. The data used has a wealth of information on family background including parental education, social class and interest shown in the...
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This paper analyzes the impact of missionary activity on English language proficiency and labor market earnings of all … proficiency and earnings compared to Catholic missionaries. Furthermore, a higher proficiency in English enhances earnings. One of …
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of English skills on labour market status and, conditional on being a wage earner, on monthly earnings and occupational … level of skills in English and earnings, which is only modestly reduced when job-related variables and (especially … English) seems to stimulate labour market participation and earnings capacity, but does not substantially affect the …
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of English skills on labour market status and, conditional on being a wage earner, on monthly earnings and occupational … level of skills in English and earnings, which is only modestly reduced when job-related variables and (especially … English) seems to stimulate labour market participation and earnings capacity, but does not substantially affect the …
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With the rapid increase in educational attainment, technological change, and greater job specialization, decisions regarding human capital investment are no longer exclusively about the quantity of education, but rather the type of education to obtain. The skills and knowledge acquired in...
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