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Between-group Competition in the Labor Market and the Rising Returns to Skill: US and France 1964-2000
Wasmer, Etienne - 2001
substitution of low education / high experience workers by low experience / high education workers by using US and French microdata … explain the changes in returns to experience. It also accounts for a part of the increase in returns to education between 1980 …: the elasticity of substitution between experience and education, which is found to be less than half. In France, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262498
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Labor Supply Dynamics, Unemployment and Human Capital Investments
Wasmer, Etienne - 2002
becomes higher but there is no persistence of the supply shock. Higher education prevents this intertemporal multiplication of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262787
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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US?: selective features of immigration to four major OECD countries
Geis, Wido; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2008
Building on a new data set which is combined from national micro-data bases, we highlight differences in the structure of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all immigrants to the OECD world. Looking at immigrants by source...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264459
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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany
Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2006
This paper investigates the evolution of wages and the recent tendency to rising wage inequality in Germany, based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) for 1984 to 2004. Between 1984 and 1994 the wage distribution was fairly stable. Wage inequality started to increase around 1994 in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297527
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Between-group competition in the labor market and the rising returns to skill : US and France 1964-2000
Wasmer, Etienne - 2001
substitution of low education/high experience workers by low experience/high education workers by using US and French microdata … explain the changes in returns to experience. It also accounts for a part of the increase in returns to education between 1980 …: the elasticity of substitution between experience and education, which is found to be less than half. In France, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401268
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Labor supply dynamics, unemployment and human capital investments
Wasmer, Etienne - 2002
becomes higher but there is no persistence of the supply shock. Higher education prevents this intertemporal multiplication of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410676
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Teacher labor markets in developing countries
Crawfurd, Lee; Pugatch, Todd - 2020
markets in developing countries are likely to grow further as teacher quality becomes a greater focus of education policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012178055
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No Education, No Good Jobs? Evidence on the Relationship between Education and Labor Market Segmentation
Pagés, Carmen; Stampini, Marco - 2021
This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs and self-employment in three Latin American and three transition countries. It looks separately at the markets for skilled and unskilled labor, inquiring if segmentation is an exclusive feature of the latter....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316679
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Education, skill, and earnings : further evidence from Ghana
Ackah, Charles; Adjasi, Charles Komla Delali; Turkson, … - 2014
This paper provides evidence on the nature of returns to education in Ghana and confirms the emerging empirical … literature on the convexity of returns to education in Ghana. Using a basic Mincerian, model we find that returns to education … results point to the importance of higher education in productivity. Nonetheless educational policies should not only be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337617
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Does composition matter? : wage inequality and the demographic and educational structure of the labor force in Gemany
Klemm, Marcus; Weigert, Benjamin - 2014 - This version: November 2014
/or better education. These groups are characterized by higher relative wages as well as higher within-group wage inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010429242