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Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel
Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher … wages. In some countries where labour markets are characterized by employment growth, skill shortages and a good match … case in point. Little attention has been given to examining the success of vocational education in raising the wages of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123991
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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
. Accounting for sample selectivity, the paper provides regressions explaining reservation wages, and actual earnings for paid … earnings differentials from working and reservation wages and for self-employment and paid-employment earnings matter much …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123900
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The Economic Performance of Germany's East European Immigrants
Schmidt, Christoph M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
Germany has experienced a substantial influx of German immigrants from Eastern Europe after World War II and expects several million more as a consequence of the demise of socialism. This paper analyses the economic performance of ethnic German migrants to West Germany in comparison with native...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005067558
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Hit Twice? Danish Evidence on the Double-Negative Effect on the Wages of Immigrant Women
Nielsen, Helena S; Rosholm, Michael; Smith, Nina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
In this paper, we investigate whether there is a double-negative effect on the wages of immigrant women in Denmark … of register data, we find that all women are affected by a substantial gender discrimination in wages, but only Pakistani …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504609
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Estimating Labour Market Discrimination with Selectivity Corrected Wage Equations: Methodological Considerations and an Illustration from Israel
Neuman, Shoshana; Oaxaca, Ronald L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
appears that there is more than one way to do it. The proposed methodology is applied to the analysis of wages of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114210
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Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792497
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Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of immigrants’ ethnic persistence and assimilation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661532
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Migration to Switzerland: Some New Evidence
Golder, Stefan M.; Straubhaar, Thomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
Switzerland has experienced a substantial influx of immigrants over the 50 years since World War II, to the extent that it now has one of the highest share of foreigners in population among OECD countries. This paper analyses Switzerland’s experience of migration, centring on two main issues:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661751
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The Labour Market Impact of Immigration in Western Germany in the 1990's
D Amuri, Francesco; Ottaviano, Gianmarco; Peri, Giovanni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and …We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … as `flexible' as the UK labour market, it would be more efficient in dealing with the effects of immigration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792043
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Do Immigrants Displace Native Workers? The Austrian Experience
Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
This paper studies the effect of increased immigration in Austria on the risk to natives of becoming unemployed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136434