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The academic progress of Hispanic immigrants
Hull, Marie - 2015
Past research has shown that Hispanic students make test score gains relative to whites as they age through school; however, this finding stands in contrast to the experience of blacks, who show little change in their relative position over the same time frame. Distinguishing Hispanic students...
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The effect of foreign students on native students' outcomes in higher education
Costas-Fernández, Julián; Morando, Greta - 2022
This paper offers new evidence of the role of immigration in shaping the educational and labour market outcomes of natives. We use administrative data on the entire English higher education system and exploit the idiosyncratic variation of foreign students within university-degree across four...
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The native-migrant gap in the progression into and through upper-secondary education
Wolter, Stefan C.; Zumbuehl, Maria - 2017
In this paper we follow the students that took the PISA 2012 test in Switzerland and analyze their transition into and progress in uppersecondary education. We observe a substantive difference in the rate of progress between natives and students with a migration background. One year after...
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Immigrants at new destinations : how they fare and why
Carneiro, Anabela; Fortuna, Natércia; Varejão, José M. - 2010
Using matched employer-employee data, we identify the determinants of immigrants’ earnings in the Portuguese labor market. Results previously reported for countries with a long tradition of hosting migrants are also valid in a new destination country. Two-thirds of the gap is attributable to...
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Immigrants and the Portuguese labor market : threat or advantage?
Ghasemi, Parisa; Teixeira, Paulino; Carreira, Carlos - 2024
Portugal between 2010 and 2019 using linked employer-employee data from Quadros de Pessoal. By leveraging job characteristics …
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On immigration and native entrepreneurship
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; McHenry, Peter - 2021
We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by being willing and able to … observationally equivalent natives. Areas with large numbers of immigrants may therefore lead to more entrepreneurship and innovation …
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How immigration may affect US native entrepreneurship : theoretical building blocks and preliminary results
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; Regets, Mark C. - 2012
impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … of immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are … ; innovation ; entrepreneurship ; human capital investment ; skill transferability ; opportunity cost ; learning transferability …
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The effects of high-skilled immigration policy on firms : evidence from visa lotteries
Doran, Kirk B.; Gelber, Alexander M.; Isen, Adam - 2022
workers at the firm. Additional H-1Bs have insignificant and at most modest effects on firm innovation. More general evidence …
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Immigration and status exchange in Australia and the United States
Choi, Kate H.; Tienda, Marta; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; … - 2011
The claim that marriage is a venue for status exchange of achieved traits, like education, and ascribed attributes, notably race and ethnic membership, has regained traction in the social stratification literature. Most studies that consider status exchanges ignore birthplace as a social...
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Speaking in numbers : the effect of reading performance on math performance among immigrants
Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2015
This paper is the first to estimate a causal effect of immigrant students' reading performance on their math performance. To overcome endogeneity issues due to unobserved ability, we apply an IV approach exploiting variation in age-at-arrival and the linguistic distance between origin and...
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