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in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be considerably higher. Immigration and secularization, and the resulting …
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variable is intermarriage across ethnic groups and the inclusion of the explanatory variables is justified by a simple rational … post-migration marriages can be identified. Results show that the probability of intermarriage increases the longer a … measure of the marriage market by using data from several Censuses. Intermarriage is lower the greater the availability ratio …
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This paper explores one potentially important channel through which immigration may drive support for extreme right …
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This conceptual paper, prepared for a United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Migration and Development, is concerned with the international mobility of high-skilled workers, previously referred to as the "brain drain". After discussing the historical background of high-skilled international...
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after immigration, followed by family-based visa recipients, with refugees having the lowest proficiency. These differences … disappear by 3 ½ years after immigration for speaking skills, but they persist for reading and writing skills. The variables …
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This paper is concerned with why immigrants appear to have consistently lower partial effects of schooling on earnings than the native born, both across destinations and in different time periods within countries. It uses the Over-Under-Required education approach to occupations, a new...
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international transferability of immigrants' human capital, and undereducation to favorable selection in immigration. Comparisons …
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This paper examines the incidence of the mismatch of the educational attainment and the occupation of employment, and …
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Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with … complementarity between language skills and both schooling and pre-immigration experience. That is, greater proficiency in the … official languages enhances the effects on earnings of schooling and pre-immigration labor market experience. Language …
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country of birth and age at immigration. Second-generation American adults have the highest level of schooling, exceeding that … of the foreign born and of the native born with native-born parents. Teenage immigration is associated with fewer years …
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