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Labour Market Matters - December 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
to Canada since the 1990s, has not led to a large improvement in immigrant earnings as may have been expected given the …
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Perceptions of employability among London’s low-paid: ‘Self-determination’ or ethnicity?
Croucher, Richard; Ramakrishnan, Sumeetra; Rizov, Marian; … - In: Economic and Industrial Democracy 39 (2015) 1, pp. 109-130
We investigate how ethnicity, gender and other characteristics affect low-paid workers’ perceptions of their employability in London’s labour market, examining self-efficacy, ethnic and dual labour market theories. We find that perceptions vary considerably, both between genders and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011906859
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Perceptions of employability among London's low-paid : "self-determination" or ethnicity?
Croucher, Richard; Ramakrishnan, Sumeetra; Rizov, Marian; … - 2018
We investigate how ethnicity, gender and other characteristics affect low-paid workers' perceptions of their employability in London's labour market, examining self-efficacy, ethnic and dual labour market theories. We find that perceptions vary considerably, both between genders and ethnicities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011933689
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Access to and returns from unpaid graduate internships
Holford, Angus - 2017
We use the Destination of Leavers from Higher Education Survey (DLHE) to estimate the socio-economic gradient in access to unpaid internships among English and Welsh graduates six months after completing their first degree, and the return to this internship experience 3 years later in terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012028769
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Access to and Returns from Unpaid Graduate Internships
Holford, Angus J. - 2017
We use the Destination of Leavers from Higher Education Survey (DLHE) to estimate the socio-economic gradient in access to unpaid internships among English and Welsh graduates six months after completing their first degree, and the return to this internship experience 3 years later in terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744557
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Access to and returns from unpaid graduate internships
Holford, Angus - 2017
We use the Destination of Leavers from Higher Education Survey (DLHE) to estimate the socio-economic gradient in access to unpaid internships among English and Welsh graduates six months after completing their first degree, and the return to this internship experience 3 years later in terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664271
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Access to and returns from unpaid graduate internships
Holford, Angus - 2017
We use the Destination of Leavers from Higher Education Survey (DLHE) to estimate the socio-economic gradient in access to unpaid internships among English and Welsh graduates six months after completing their first degree, and the return to this internship experience 3 years later in terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011672684
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Human capital and Black-white earnings gaps, 1996-2017
Thompson, Owen - 2021
This paper estimates the contribution of human capital to the Black-white earnings gap in three separate samples of men … capital. There are three main findings. First, the magnitude of reductions in the Black-white earnings gap that occur after …-white earnings disparities. Second, these increases are almost entirely due to growth in the returns to human capital, which magnify …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660911
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Immigrant selection systems and occupational outcomes of international medical graduates in Canada and the United States
McDonald, James Ted; Warman, Casey; Worswick, Christopher - 2011
We analyze the process of immigrant selection and occupational outcomes of International Medical Graduates (IMGs) in the US and Canada. We extend the IMG relicensing model of Kugler and Sauer (2005) to incorporate two different approaches to immigrant selection: employer nomination systems and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290334
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From Engineer to Taxi Driver? Language Proficiency and the Occupational Skills of Immigrants
Imai, Susumu; Stacey, Derek; Warman, Casey - Economics Discipline Group, Business School - 2014
detrimental to earnings among immigrants with limited language fluency. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010883515