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Educational mismatch: are high-skilled immigrants really working at high-skilled jobs and the price they pay if they aren't?

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

This paper examines the incidence of the mismatch of the educational attainment and the occupation of employment, and the impact of this mismatch on the earnings, of high-skilled adult male immigrants in the US labor market. Analyses for high-skilled adult male native-born workers are also...

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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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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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Innovation and firm growth in high-tech sectors: A quantile regression approach

Coad, Alex; Rao, Rekha - 2007

We relate innovation to sales growth for incumbent firms in high-tech sectors. A firm, on average, experiences only … returns to innovation are highly skewed and that growth rates distributions are heavy-tailed, it may be misleading to use … that innovation is of crucial importance for a handful of superstar fast-growth firms. We also discuss policy implications …

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Distance to frontier and appropriate business strategy

Coad, Alex - 2008

This paper is an empirical test of the hypothesis that the appropriateness of different business strategies is conditional on the firm's distance to the industry frontier. We use data on four 2-digit high-tech manufacturing industries in the US over the period 1972-1999, and apply...

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Distance to frontier and appropriate business strategy

Coad, Alex - 2008

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