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Educational attainment of second-generation immigrants : a US-Canada comparison
Liu, Xingfei - 2014
family background is closely related to educational attainment of white children of immigrants in both countries. Moreover … between children of immigrants and children of natives. Results from counterfactual simulations suggest that incentive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010442310
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How the earnings growth of US immigrants was underestimated
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark C. - In: Journal of population economics : international … 35 (2022) 2, pp. 381-407
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How the earnings growth of U.S. immigrants was underestimated
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark C. - 2021
Two radically different descriptions of immigrant earnings trajectories in the U.S. have emerged. One asserts that immigrant men following the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act have low initial earnings and high earnings growth. Another asserts that post-1965 immigrants have low initial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012500969
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Country of origin, earnings convergence, and human capital investment : a new method for the analysis of U.S. immigrant economic assimilation
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark C. - 2018
The initial earnings of U.S. immigrants vary enormously by country of origin. Via three interrelated analyses, we show earnings convergence across source countries with time in the United States. Human-capital theory plausibly explains the inverse relationship between initial earnings and...
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The evolution of inequality in education trajectories and graduation outcomes in the US
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - 2022
Longitudinal Survey of Youths which we follow from 16 to 28. We discuss the evolution of family income and ability effects where … component correlated with family income and background variables. We find that the individual cognitive-technical ability … differential prevailing at 16 was increasing with income in the early 80's but much less so in the early 2000's. We find no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013260027
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The evolution of inequality in education trajectories and graduation outcomes in the US
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013355190
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Dynamic skill accumulation, comparative advantages, compulsory schooling and earnings
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009552186
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Dynamic skill accumulation, comparative advantages, compulsory schooling, and earnings
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - 2011
We show that a calibrated dynamic skill accumulation model allowing for comparative advantages, can explain the weak (or negative) effects of schooling on productivity that have been recently reported (i) in the micro literature on compulsory schooling, ii) in the micro literature on estimating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522490
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Country of origin and immigrant earnings,1960-2000 : a human capital investment perspective
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Marc - 2014
Using microdata from the 1960-2000 decennial censuses, this paper explores how large initial differences in immigrant earnings by country of origin change with duration in the United States. One analysis reveals that country of origin adds less to the explanation of earnings, among working-age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434496
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Dynamic Skill Accumulation, Comparative Advantages, Compulsory Schooling, and Earnings
Belzil, Christian - 2011
We show that a calibrated dynamic skill accumulation model allowing for comparative advantages, can explain the weak (or negative) effects of schooling on productivity that have been recently reported (i) in the micro literature on compulsory schooling, ii) in the micro literature on estimating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117619