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Is the lower return to immigrants' foreign schooling a postarrival problem in Canada?

Aydede, Yigit; Dar, Atul A. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 6 (2016) 4, pp. 1-25

Using the 2006 Canadian Census, this paper investigates the lower return to immigrants’ foreign education credentials after adjusting for their occupational matching in hosting labor markets. We develop two continuous indices that quantify the matching quality of the native-born in both...

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The effect of homeownership on the option value of regional migration

Oswald, Florian - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 10 (2019) 4, pp. 1453-1493

This paper estimates a lifecycle model of consumption, housing choice, and migration in the presence of aggregate and regional shocks, using the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). The model delivers structural estimates of moving costs by ownership status, age, and family size...

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Successful return to work during labor market liberalization : the case of Italian injured workers

Galizzi, Monica; Leombruni, Roberto; Pacelli, Lia - In: Journal for labour market research 53 (2019) 9, pp. 1-24

We investigate the long term employment outcomes of Italian injured workers over a time period when the country introduced policy reforms that increased labor market flexibility but reduced job security. Using an employer-employee database matched with injury data, we observe that both before...

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Policy levers to increase jobs and increase income from work after the Great Recession

Neumark, David - In: IZA journal of labor policy 5 (2016) 6, pp. 1-38

, high long-term unemployment, stagnant or declining wages for low-to-medium skill jobs owing to adverse labor demand shifts …

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Skill-biased labor market reforms and international competitiveness

Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - 2012

in line with Mortensen and Pissarides (Job Creation and Job Destruction in the Theory of Unemployment, 1994) give rise to … unemployment and a channel for the government to influence markets through institutional changes. Labor market interventions … market reforms through higher wages. Lower labor costs reduce unemployment of the low-skilled and increases the reforming …

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Getting ahead, falling behind and standing still : income mobility in Chile : movilidad de ingresos en Chile

Castro, Rodrigo - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 243-258

unemployment to employment significantly increases probability of moving up and decreases probability of moving down. Technical …

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Intergenerational income and educational mobility in urban Chile

Núñez Errazuriz, Javier I.; Miranda, Leslie - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 195-221

This paper provides evidence on the degree and patterns of intergenerational income and educational mobility in urban Chile. We find intergenerational income elasticities for Greater Santiago in Chile in the range of 0.52 to 0.54. This is lower than recent nation-wide elasticities for Chile of...

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Top Incomes in Chile using 50 years of household surveys : 1957 - 2007 : 1957 - 2007

Sanhueza, Claudia; Mayer, Ricardo - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 169-193

Using household surveys that cover more than 50 years of the political and economic history of Chile, we investigate changes in the shape of the distribution of income in Chile, and in the composition of top 10% and top 1% incomes. In line with international evidence, top incomes concentration...

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The organisational commitment of workers in OECD countries

Clark, Andrew E. - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 22 (2011) 1, pp. 8-27

patterns do, however, correlate with some country-level variables. While unemployment and inflation are both associated with …

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Regional earning disparities and the speed of transition : evidence from Poland 1994-1997

Burke, Fiona; Walsh, Patrick Paul - In: IZA journal of labor & development 1 (2012), pp. 1-19

speed of transition examining employment restructuring in labor demand. The local shortterm unemployment (excessive layoffs …

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