Decomposing immigrant wage assimilation - the role of workplaces and occupations
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Firm sorting; occupational mobility; wage assimilation; host country specific human capital; employer learning;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D22 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
- D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
- J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LAB-2013-05-24 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-LMA-2013-05-24 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
- NEP-MIG-2013-05-24 (Economics of Human Migration)
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