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Author(s)
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Title
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54
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Magnus
Lofstrom
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Labor Market Assimilation and the Self-Employment Decision of Immigrant Entrepreneurs
This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study labor market assimilation of self-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage/salary workers are ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2002, 15 (1), 83-114)
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J15 J23 J61
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53
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Joop
Hartog
Pedro
T.
Pereira
José
António Cabral
Vieira
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Inter-industry Wage Dispersion in Portugal: high but falling
This paper examines the size of inter-industry wage dispersion in Portugal and compares with other countries. We find that the country has a high inter-industry wage inequality compared with the ...
(published as 'Inter-industry Wage Dispersion in Portugal' in: Empirica, 2000, 27 (4), 353-364)
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J31
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52
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Jochen
Mayer
Regina
T.
Riphahn
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Fertility Assimilation of Immigrants: Evidence from Count Data Models
This study applies count data estimation techniques to investigate the fertility adjustment of immigrants in the destination country. Data on completed fertility are taken from the 1996 wave of the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2000, 13 (2), 241-262)
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C25 J13 J61
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51
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Alan
Barrett
Philip
J.
O'Connell
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Does Training Generally Work? The Returns to In-Company Training
This paper applies the familiar theoretical distinction between general and specific training to the empirical task of estimating the returns to in-company training. Using a firm-level dataset which ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2001, 54 (3), 647-662)
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J24
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50
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Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Ethnic German Migration since 1989 - Results and Perspectives/ Aussiedler seit 1989 - Bilanz und Perspektiven
Among all European countries, Germany absorbs by far the largest number of immigrants. But to date, the German government has yet to adopt a system that will effectively control the influx of ...
(published in: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook, 2000, 1, 225-237)
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J61 J68
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49
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Hans Peter
Grüner
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Unemployment and Labor-Market Reform: A Contract Theoretic Approach
Why do many democracies fail to reform their labor market institutions? We study the feasibility of reforms that include the compensation of the insiders for the removal of labor market regulations. ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2002, 104 (4), 641-656)
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D70 E61 J68
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48
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Thomas
K.
Bauer
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Overtime Work and Overtime Compensation in Germany
Sharing the available stock of work more fairly is a popular concern in the public policy debate. One policy proposal is to reduce overtime work in order to allow the employment of more people. This ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 1999, 46 (4), 419-436)
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J22 J23 J33
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46
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Ralph
Rotte
Michael
Vogler
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The Effects of Development on Migration: Theoretical Issues and New Empirical Evidence
Empirical research on the determinants of international migration including the LDCs has so far neglected one important issue: the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2000, 13(3), 485-508)
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F22 O15 O19
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44
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David
N.F.
Bell
Robert
A.
Hart
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Overtime Working in an Unregulated Labour Market
Using individual-level data on male non-managerial workers from the 1996 British New Earnings Survey, we estimate overtime hours and average premium pay equations. Among other issues, four broad ...
(published as "Wages, hours, and overtime premia: evidence from the British labor market" in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2003, 56 (3), 470-480)
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J33 J38
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42
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Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
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The Changing Distribution of Job Satisfaction
The distribution of job satisfaction widened across cohorts of young men in the U.S. between 1978 and 1988, and between 1978 and 1996, in ways correlated with changing wage inequality. Satisfaction ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2001, 36 (1), 1-30)
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J28
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