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ORU analyses of immigrant earnings in Australia, with international comparisons

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation/required education/undereducation (ORU) framework (Hartog, 2000) and a decomposition of the native-born/foreign-born differential in the payoff to schooling developed by Chiswick and Miller...

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The complementarity of language and other human capital : immigrant earnings in Canada

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with proficiency in the official languages (English and...

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Does the choice of reference levels of education matter in the ORU earnings equation?

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation/under-education (ORU) literature are sensitive to whether the usual or reference levels of education are measured using the Realized Matches or Worker Self-Assessment methods. The...

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The effects of school quality in the origin on the payoff to schooling for immigrants

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2010

The payoff to schooling among the foreign born in the US is only around one-half of the payoff for the native born. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The paper uses the Over-education/ Required...

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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 …

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The evolution of inequality in education trajectories and graduation outcomes in the US

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - 2022

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Earnings dispersion, risk aversion and eduation

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2002

We estimate a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the degree of risk aversion can be inferred from schooling decisions. In our model, individuals are heterogeneous with respect to school and market abilities but homogeneous with respect to the degree of risk aversion. We...

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Household characteristics, ability and education : evidence from a dynamic expected utility model

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 1999

household characteristics (especially household income). The "true'' intergenerational correlation between schooling attainments … and parents' education (after conditioning on observed and unobserved ability) is found to be quite low. Finally, our …

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Subjective discount rates, intergenerational transfers and the return to schooling

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 1999

Using a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions, we investigate the relationship between subjective discount rates and the labor market ability (the discount rate bias) on a panel taken from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). Given household human capital and Armed Forces...

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Unobserved ability and the return to schooling

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2002

We estimate a structural dynamic programming model of schooling decisions with unobserved heterogeneity in school ability and market ability on a sample taken from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). Both the instantaneous utility of attending school and the wage regression...

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