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This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the … show that returns to human capital are considerably lower for immigrants as compared to natives and that there is no return … human capital, for immigrants and natives, in explaining inter-occupational and intra-occupational earnings progression …
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, we examine the efficacy of vocational education in raising the wage levels of four such groups: recent immigrants, Jews …
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immigrants to be favorably selected, although this is less intense under the later criteria. The overall favorable selectivity of … immigrants, therefore, depends on the favorable selectivity of the supply of immigrants and the criteria used to ration …
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This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 …
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language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and … determinants of destination language proficiency among immigrants. This is based on Exposure, Efficiency and Economic Incentives … (the three E’s) for proficiency. It also focuses on the labor market consequences (earnings) of proficiency for immigrants …
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destination language skills, and Economic incentives for acquiring this proficiency, (3) the consequences for immigrants of …
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Europe, immigrants not covered by EU free mobility provisions are more likely to work without contracts than otherwise … Europe than in the West, except for Ireland, the UK and Austria. Between 2004 and 2009, no cases found when unemployment and … equal. In Southern and Western Europe, immigrants from CEE and FSU feature the highest dependent informality rate, whilst in …
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occupational distributions differ by gender; why geographic and job mobility predominate among the young; why unemployment is lower …
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We construct and estimate by maximum likelihood an equilibrium search model where wages are set by Nash bargaining and idiosyncratic productivity follows a geometric Brownian motion. The proposed framework enables us to endogenize job destruction and to estimate the rate of learning-by-doing....
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This article summarizes three different strands of the literature that address the labor market effects of language-related human capital. (1) A general importance is demonstrated in the empirical evidence on earnings and employment effects of literacy as the ability to productively use written...
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