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Low-skilled immigrants and the US labor market
Over the last several decades, two of the most significant developments in the US labor market have been: (1) risin... Show more
Date: 2011
Geographic subjects: United States; North America
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Labour market; Migration; Employment ... [+] Show more
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Overeducation and skill endowments: the role of school achievement and vocational training quality
Thurow’s job-competition model implies that overeducation is contingent upon the differing skill endowments of empl... Show more
Date: 2001
Geographic subjects: Europe; Germany
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Vocational education and training; Assessment; Qualifications ... [+] Show more
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India's increasing skill premium: role of demand and supply
The tertiary-secondary (college-high school) wage premium has been increasing in India over the past decade, but th... Show more
Date: 2009
Geographic subjects: Asia; India
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Secondary education; Higher education; Skills and knowledge ... [+] Show more
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Evolution of the Chinese rural-urban migrant labor market from 2002 to 2007
The paper studies the dynamic change of the migrant labor market in China from 2002 to 2007 using two comparable da... Show more
Date: 2011
Geographic subjects: China; Asia
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Labour market; Demographics; Migration ... [+] Show more
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Minimum wages and teen employment: a spatial panel approach
The authors employ spatial econometrics techniques and Annual Averages data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistic... Show more
Date: 2011
Geographic subjects: United States; North America
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Youth; Employment; Income ... [+] Show more
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Subject choice and earnings of UK graduates
Using a survey of a cohort of UK graduates, linked to administrative data on higher education participation, this p... Show more
Date: 2011
Geographic subjects: Great Britain; Europe
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Students; Higher education; Participation ... [+] Show more
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Do they understand the benefits from education?: evidence on Dutch high school students' earnings expectations
Using an internet collected dataset, we will provide some empirical evidence on the information that Dutch high sch... Show more
Date: 2011
Geographic subjects: Netherlands; Europe
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Outcomes; Higher education; Participation ... [+] Show more
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Training the unemployed in France: how does it affect unemployment duration and recurrence?
Econometric evaluations of public-sponsored training programmes generally find little evidence of an impact of such... Show more
Date: 2007
Geographic subjects: Europe; France
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Evaluation; Outcomes; Statistics ... [+] Show more
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Market imperfections and firm-sponsored training
Recent human capital theories predict that labor market frictions and product market competition influence firm-spo... Show more
Date: 2010
Geographic subjects: Netherlands; Europe
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Workforce development; Labour market; Finance
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A history of Canadian recruitment of highly skilled immigrants: circa 1980-2001
This paper identifies the types of immigrants that Canada has recruited to foster modern Canadian economic developm... Show more
Date: 2006
Geographic subjects: North America; Canada
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Migration; Statistics; Employment ... [+] Show more