Labour Market Disadvantages of Citizens with a Migration Background in Belgium: A Systematic Review

L Devos, L Lippens, D Lens, F Rycx, M Volral, S Baert - 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
Labour markets struggle to be inclusive, while diversity is increasing. This literature review
examines labour market challenges faced by first-and second-generation migrants in …

Gender wage and productivity gaps in the Ethiopian manufacturing sector

M Abegaz, G Nene - Journal of Applied Economics, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The paper uses firm-level data to examine gender wage and productivity gaps in the
Ethiopian manufacturing sector for the period 1996–2010. It investigates gender wage …

[图书][B] Discrimination and inequality in housing in Ireland

R Grotti, H Russell, É Fahey, B Maître - 2018 - iris.unitn.it
This report investigates the experience of housing discrimination and unequal housing
outcomes in Ireland. It sets out to examine whether these outcomes are affected by …

Over-education among immigrants: the role of demographics, time, and firm characteristics

V Jacobs, B Mahy, F Rycx, M Volral - Applied Economics, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This paper puts the nexus between immigration and over-education to an updated test,
capitalizing on the authors' access to rich Belgian matched employer-employee data for the …

Wage discrimination based on the country of birth: do tenure and product market competition matter?

V Fays, B Mahy, F Rycx, M Volral - Applied Economics, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Using a merged employer-employee panel dataset of more than 13,000 firms relative to the
Belgian private sector for the 1999–2010 period, this paper aims to quantify wage …

Does over-education raise productivity and wages equally? The moderating role of workers' origin and immigrants' background

V Jacobs, K Pineda-Hernández, F Rycx… - Education …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
We provide first evidence of the impact of over-education, among natives and immigrants, on
firm-level productivity and wages. Our results show that the over-education wage premium is …

Wage effects of educational mismatch according to workers' origin: the role of demographics and firm characteristics

V Jacobs, F Rycx, M Volral - De Economist, 2022 - Springer
This paper analyses the wage effects of educational mismatch by workers' origin using a
sizeable, detailed matched employer–employee dataset for Belgium. Relying on a fine …

L'union fait la force? Evidence for wage discrimination in firms with high diversity

E Grinza, S Kampelmann, F Rycx - The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2020 - Springer
Measuring the economic impact of coworkers from different countries of origin sparked
intense scrutiny in labor economics, albeit with an uncomfortable methodological limitation …

The impact of migration flows on well-being of elderly natives and migrants: Evidence from the survey of health, ageing and retirement in Europe

SH Akdede, E Giovanis - Social Indicators Research, 2022 - Springer
Immigration has been a long-standing contentious issue across the globe. According to a
recent report published by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in 2015, the …

Immigrant overeducation across two generations: The role of gender and part-time work

K Pineda-Hernández, F Rycx… - Oxford Economic Papers, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Overeducation implies having a higher level of education than that required to perform a
specific job. In this regard, a large body of literature shows that first-generation immigrants …