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The complementarity of language and other human capital : immigrant earnings in Canada
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001675854
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003898600
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406870
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Student outcomes at university in Australia : a quantile regression approach
Birch, Elisa Rose; Miller, Paul W. - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003151436
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003894826
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688727
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Life expentancy at birth and lifetime education and earnings
Hoque, Mohammad Mainul; King, Elizabeth M.; Montenegro, … - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660237
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Life expectancy at birth and lifetime education and earnings
Hoque, Mohammad Mainul; King, Elizabeth M.; Montenegro, … - 2020
Exploiting cross-birth cohort and cross-country variation from a pool of 188 household surveys from 111 countries, this paper measures how life expectancy at birth affects lifetime education and earnings. On average, individuals add one year of schooling for every 8.3 years of increased life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388740
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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