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The geography of occupational choice : empirical evidence from the Swiss apprenticeship market

Kuhn, Andreas - 2022

This paper presents an empirical exploration of the geography of adolescents' occupational choices, using data covering a single cross-section of the population of all individual-level apprenticeship contracts in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. The unique feature of the data is that they...

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Do grow-your-own programs work? : evidence from the Teacher Academy of Maryland

Blazar, David; Gao, Wenjing; Gershenson, Seth; Goings, … - 2024

Local teacher recruitment through "grow-your-own" programs is a prominent strategy to address workforce shortages and ensure that incoming teachers resemble, understand, and have strong connections to their communities. We exploit the staggered rollout of the Teacher Academy of Maryland career...

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Occupational choice of return migrants : migrant-sending countries can significantly benefit from the type of occupation chosen by return migrants

Piracha, Matloob - 2015

The occupational choice of return migrants is important to their home country. Return migrants are likely to have acquired human capital while abroad, either through formal training or by working in a more efficient labor market. The employment of these newly acquired skills in the home country...

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The economic outcomes of an ethnic minority : the role of barriers

Ḳasir, Nitsa; Yashiv, Eran - 2020

The Arab population in Israel constitutes an ethnic minority, at around 20% of the population. The economy of this minority is characterized by inferior outcomes relative to the Jewish majority by all indicators, including employment, wages, occupational status, social welfare, education, and...

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From pink-collar to lab coat: cultural persistence and diffusion of socialist gender norms

Friedman-Sokuler, Naomi; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2020

immigrants, and horizontally through neighborhood and school peer effects. Tracking the educational and occupational choices of a … infancy, are significantly more likely than natives and other immigrants to major in STEM in high school. In tertiary … from traditional female study fields as the share of FSU immigrants in their lower-secondary school increases. …

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The native-migrant gap in the progression into and through upper-secondary education

Wolter, Stefan C.; Zumbuehl, Maria - 2017

In this paper we follow the students that took the PISA 2012 test in Switzerland and analyze their transition into and progress in uppersecondary education. We observe a substantive difference in the rate of progress between natives and students with a migration background. One year after...

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Language proficiency of migrants : the relation with job satisfaction and skill matching

Bloemen, Hans G. - 2014 - This version November 2014

language proficiency and economic outcomes has been on the relation between earnings and indicators for language proficiency …

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Do immigrants bring good health?

Giuntella, Osea; Mazzonna, Fabrizio - 2014

component of the data to analyse how immigration affects the health of both immigrants and natives over time. Upon their arrival …, immigrants are found to be healthier than the natives (healthy immigrant effect), but their health deteriorates over time spent … in Germany. We show that the convergence in health is heterogeneous across immigrants and occurs more rapidly among those …

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Do parental networks pay off? : linking children's labor-market outcomes to their parents' friends

Plug, Erik J. S.; Klaauw, Bas van der; Ziegler, Lennart - 2015

's occupational choices and earnings prospects. These results do not change when we account for network endogeneity, network …

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Gender wage gaps and risky vs. secure employment : an experimental analysis

Jung, Seeun; Choe, Chung; Oaxaca, Ronald L. - 2016

In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also contribute to observed gender wage gaps. We conduct laboratory experiments in which subjects choose between a risky (in terms of exposure to unemployment) and a secure job after...

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