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Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2014

This article summarizes three different strands of the literature that address the labor market effects of language … ongoing globalization leads to an increased demand for foreign language proficiency to reduce search and information costs and … migrants, destination language skills display both a prerequisite for and outcome of successful integration. Investments into …

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Lifecycle wages and human capital investments : selection and missing data

Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry; Roux, Sébastien - 2025

We derive wage equations with individual specific coefficients from a structural model of human capital investment over the life cycle. This model allows for interruptions in labour market participation and deals with missing data and attrition problems. We propose a new framework that deals...

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Convergences in men's and women's life patterns : lifetime work, lifetime earnings, and human capital investment

Jacobsen, Joyce P.; Khamis, Melanie; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2014

The changes in women and men's work lives have been considerable in recent decades. Yet much of the recent research on gender differences in employment and earnings has been of a more snapshot nature rather than taking a longer comparative look at evolving patterns. In this paper, we use 50...

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A historical note on the assimilation rates of foreign-born men and women in the U.S.

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Dowhan, Dan; Liu, Xingfei; … - 2025

The 1924 Immigration Act excluded immigrants from economically developing countries to the point of their near total exclusion. Forty years later, the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act eliminated most discriminatory county-of-origin barriers. America's doors opened and immigration from...

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A historical note on the assimilation rates of foreign-born men and women in the U.S.

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Dowhan, Dan; Liu, Xingfei; … - 2025

Fueling debates about the "quality" of immigrants from economically developing countries, empirical studies based on a well-respected methodology conclude that post-1965 immigrant men have low initial earnings and sluggish earnings growth. This methodology is based on flawed assumptions (Duleep,...

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Chapter 2. The Production of Human Capital in Developed Countries : Evidence From 196 Randomized Field Experiments

Fryer, R.G. - 2017

Randomized field experiments designed to better understand the production of human capital have increased exponentially over the past several decades. This chapter summarizes what we have learned about various partial derivatives of the human capital production function, what important partial...

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Are all automation-resistant skills rewarded? : linguistic skills in the US labour market

Ubalde, Josep; Alarcón, Amado - In: The economic and labour relations review : ELRR 31 (2020) 3, pp. 403-424

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The returns to occupational foreign language use : evidence from Germany

Heidland, Tobias - 2013

premia for applying their native language on the job in addition to those for English, their trade-fostering potential seems …

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How do linguistic and technical skills affect earnings in India?

Refeque, Muhammed; Azad, P. - In: Indian economic review : official journal of Delhi … 57 (2022) 1, pp. 23-57

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Non-Compete Agreements : human capital investments or compensated wages?

Kodama, Naomi; Kambayashi, Ryo; Izumi, Atsuko - 2025

Non-Compete Agreements (NCAs) restrict workers from joining or forming rival companies, which impacts labor market dynamics. Theoretical perspectives on NCAs are varied: they can lead to increased employer investment and higher wages by reducing labor turnover, or they might simply raise wages...

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