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In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings are distributed across the population … questions based on research emanating from Mincer’s original earnings function specification. …. In the years since Mincer’s seminal work, he as well as his students and colleagues extended the original human capital …
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In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings are distributed across the population … questions based on research emanating from Mincer's original earnings function specification. -- Mincer ; earnings ; earnings … function ; gender ; discrimination …
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In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings are distributed across the population … questions based on research emanating from Mincer's original earnings function specification …. In the years since Mincer's seminal work, he as well as his students and colleagues extended the original human capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316685
arrived immigrants. Many factors that have a negative effect on entry earnings also increase either the incentive or the … not immediately valued in the U.S. labor market are useful to the acquisition of U.S. skills. Thus entry earnings are not … initial immigrant earnings and subsequent earnings growth. This result – which persists even after accounting for differences …
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arrived immigrants. Many factors that have a negative effect on entry earnings also increase either the incentive or the … not immediately valued in the U.S. labor market are useful to the acquisition of U.S. skills. Thus entry earnings are not … initial immigrant earnings and subsequent earnings growth. This result - which persists even after accounting for differences …
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arrived immigrants. Many factors that have a negative effect on entry earnings also increase either the incentive or the … not immediately valued in the U.S. labor market are useful to the acquisition of U.S. skills. Thus entry earnings are not … initial immigrant earnings and subsequent earnings growth. This result - which persists even after accounting for differences …
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The initial earnings of U.S. immigrants vary enormously by country of origin. Via three interrelated analyses, we show … earnings convergence across source countries with time in the United States. Human-capital theory plausibly explains the … inverse relationship between initial earnings and earnings growth rates: the good fit between data and theory suggests that …
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earnings of immigrants as compared to native workers, in particular to test whether there is any systematic variation in the … labor market performance of immigrants across gender related to duration in the destination, schooling, age at immigration …, country of origin, or country of destination. We find a significant negative effect of immigrant status on individual earnings …
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Using a dynamic skill accumulation model of schooling and labor supply with learning-by-doing, we decompose early life-cycle wage growth of U.S. white males into four main sources: education, hours worked, cognitive skills (AFQT scores) and unobserved heterogeneity, and evaluate the effect of...
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Using a dynamic skill accumulation model of schooling and labor supply with learning-by-doing, we decompose early life-cycle wage growth of U.S. white males into four main sources: education, hours worked, cognitive skills (Armed Forces Qualification Tests scores), and unobserved heterogeneity,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011801771