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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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This paper explores one potentially important channel through which immigration may drive support for extreme right …
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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 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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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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immigrants' human capital, and under-education to favourable selection in immigration. The results show that immigrants have a … effects of under-education, or selection in immigration, are, however, twice as large as the effects of over-education, or … limited international transferability of human capital. Favourable selection in immigration appears to be less important in …
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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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international transferability of immigrants' human capital, and undereducation to favorable selection in immigration. Comparisons …
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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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