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high-skill workers. In this paper we show that a model of employer taste-based discrimination in a labor market … workers. We use the model to undertake a structural decomposition and conclude that discrimination resulting from employer …
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This paper analyzes the process of entry of highly skilled immigrants into the Israeli labor market, using panel data … on several cohorts of recent immigrants from the former USSR. The study develops and estimates an on-the-job search model … on the wages of immigrants from earlier waves, allow the simulation of an occupational path and associated wages, for …
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This paper analyzes the process of entry of highly skilled immigrants into the Israeli labor market, using panel data … on several cohorts of recent immigrants from the former USSR. The study develops and estimates an on-the-job search model … on the wages of immigrants from earlier waves, allow the simulation of an occupational path and associated wages, for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014119990
great range of geographical origins and cultural backgrounds of immigrants make the study of the determinants and the …
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literature" and the "discrimination literature". We estimate separate wage equations for natives and a number of immigrant groups … of qualifications and incomplete assimilation, and that a large fraction of that gap would disappear if only immigrants …
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This study finds evidence of wage divergence between immigrants and natives in Germany using a country-wide household … immigrants and natives. Individual rates of wage convergence are found to be higher for immigrants who fled warfare zones, belong … contributes substantially to closing the wage gap with natives. The treatment effect is heterogeneous, favoring immigrants who are …
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penalty. In addition, few studies have considered overeducation among immigrants. This paper uses panel data analyses to … investigate the match between education and occupation and resulting earnings effects for immigrants from English Speaking, and …) that are crucial in overeducation analysis. First, we find that immigrants have significantly higher incidence rates of …
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language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and … determinants of destination language proficiency among immigrants. This is based on Exposure, Efficiency and Economic Incentives … (the three E's) for proficiency. It also focuses on the labor market consequences (earnings) of proficiency for immigrants …
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benefiting from positive employer 'discrimination' (a wage premium unrelated to observed characteristics such as gender, age, and …
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This paper examines the wage and job satisfaction effects of over-education and overskilling among migrants graduating from EU-15 based universities in 2005. Female migrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a higher likelihood of overskilling. Newly arrived migrants incurred...
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