A General Equilibrium Evaluation of the Employment Service
In: Journal of human capital: JHC, Band 4, Heft 3, S. 274-329
ISSN: 1932-8664
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In: Journal of human capital: JHC, Band 4, Heft 3, S. 274-329
ISSN: 1932-8664
In: Journal of human capital: JHC, Band 17, Heft 4, S. 463-502
ISSN: 1932-8664
In: The Canadian journal of economics: the journal of the Canadian Economics Association = Revue canadienne d'économique, Band 53, Heft 4, S. 1404-1428
ISSN: 1540-5982
AbstractUsing data on immigrants from the Canadian Census, we compare immigrants who received a bachelor's degree from a Canadian university to immigrants who receive a bachelor's degree in their home country, in order to investigate the returns to skills acquired in Canada versus skills acquired abroad. Our measure of skill is based on postsecondary fields of study linked to the O*NET matrix of skills and competencies. We find that immigrants educated in Canada receive higher returns to their communication skills than those educated abroad. To a lesser degree, they also receive higher returns to their logical and technical skills. These gaps in skill returns explain the entirety of Canadian‐educated immigrant's 10% earnings advantage. Our results are robust to controlling for the quality of universities in the immigrant's country of study and for occupation and industry choice. The gaps are stable across time and across quantiles of the immigrant earnings distribution.
In: The Canadian journal of economics: the journal of the Canadian Economics Association = Revue canadienne d'économique, Band 42, Heft 3, S. 1100-1131
ISSN: 1540-5982
Abstract Using the Canadian General Social Survey we compute returns to post‐secondary education relative to high school. Unlike previous research using Canadian data, our data set allows us to control for ability selection into higher education. We find strong evidence of positive ability selection into all levels of post‐secondary education for men and weaker positive selection for women. Since the ability selection is stronger for higher levels of education, particularly for university, the difference in returns between university and college or trades education decreases slightly after accounting for ability bias. However, a puzzling large gap persists, with university‐educated men still earning over 20% more than men with college or trades education.
In: Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, Band 42, Heft 3, S. 1100-1131
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In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 2784
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In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 7304
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In: The Canadian journal of economics: the journal of the Canadian Economics Association = Revue canadienne d'économique, Band 53, Heft 1, S. 174-211
ISSN: 1540-5982
AbstractThe literature on the returns to training has pointed out that, immediately following a training episode, wages of participants in employer‐sponsored training increase substantially while wages of participants in government‐sponsored training hardly change. We argue that there is a potential selection issue—most of the government‐sponsored trainees are occupation switchers while most participants in employer‐sponsored training are occupation stayers. An occupational switch involves a substantial destruction of human capital, and once we account for the associated decline in wages, we find a large positive impact of both employer‐ and government‐sponsored training on workers' human capital.
In: Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, Band 53, Heft 1, S. 174-211
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In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 4042
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