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-market outcomes a difficult endeavor. In this research, I examine employment opportunities for white and black graduates of elite top …
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This paper examines the wage effects of different types of career interruptions. We consider the timing and duration of non-employment spells by exploiting an administrative data set of German social security accounts (IAB employment sample) supplemented with information on the employees' entire...
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We extend the literature on transition economies' wage structures by investigating the returns to tenure and experience. This study applies recent panel data and estimation approaches that control for hitherto neglected biases. We compare the life cycle structure in East and West German wages...
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analysis provides novel evidence for the magnitude and the origin of ethnic wage differentials by gender. In general, ethnic … observed characteristics. Most notably, Mediterranean female graduates have significant positive wage discrimination while … Western female graduates seem to face a small wage penalty …
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analysis provides novel evidence for the magnitude and the origin of ethnic wage differentials by gender. In general, ethnic … observed characteristics. Most notably, Mediterranean female graduates have significant positive wage discrimination while … Western female graduates seem to face a small wage penalty. -- college ; university ; wages ; qualifications ; dropout …
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This paper uses a college-by-graduate degree fixed effects estimator to evaluate the returns to 19 different graduate degrees for men and women. We find substantial variation across degrees, and evidence that OLS over-estimates the returns to degrees with the highest average earnings and...
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This paper deals with the effects of education-job (mis)match on the earnings of higher education graduates in the … contextual variables: the share of graduates in the population and the unemployment rate of graduates. The paper is based on … assumptions derived from assignment theory. The authors use data of graduates' self-evaluation collected in national and …
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and child-rearing - a critical omission when analyzing gender differences in earnings. This paper constructs a better … can be generated using commonly available data on labor force participation rates by age and gender to gauge the … probability of past work. Applying the measure to labor force survey data from the Philippines shows that conventional proxies …
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foreign PhD graduates staying on in Australia as skilled migrants. Natives with an English-speaking background emerge as … benefiting from positive employer 'discrimination' (a wage premium unrelated to observed characteristics such as gender, age, and … previous work experience). The premium is field-specific and applies to graduates in Science, Technology, Engineering and …
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