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Family Matters: The Role of the Family in Immigrants’ Destination Language Acquisition

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

This paper is concerned with the relationship among family members in the determinants of destination language … proficiency among immigrants. A model of immigrant language proficiency is augmented to include dynamics among family members. It … is tested using data on a sample of recent immigrants. Children are shown to have a negative effect on their mother …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233773

Parents and Children Talk: The Family Dynamics of English Language Proficiency

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

incorporating dynamics among family members – mother, father and children. Single equation, bivariate, and four-state (multivariate … unmeasured determinants of proficiency exist between spouses, between siblings, and between parents and children, although the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762132

The Complementarity of Language and Other Human Capital: Immigrant Earnings in Canada

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with proficiency in the official languages (English and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822761

Why Is the Payoff to Schooling Smaller for Immigrants?

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762157

ORU Analyses of Immigrant Earnings in Australia, with International Comparisons

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565202

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. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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The Effects of School Quality in the Origin on the Payoff to Schooling for Immigrants

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008548716

An Explanation for the Lower Payoff to Schooling for Immigrants in the Canadian Labour Market

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper examines the difference between the payoffs to schooling for immigrants and the native born in Canada, using 2001 Census data. Analyses are presented for males and females. Comparisons are offered with findings for the US. The paper uses the Overeducation/Required...

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Does the Choice of Reference Levels of Education Matter in the ORU Earnings Equation?

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005103258

The Effect of Children on Specialization and Coordination of Partners' Activities

Le, Anh T.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper first documents the extent of the specialization in time use in couple families, and the impact of children … impact of children on these links, and the effects these factors have on specialization in time use. Children are shown to … their parents. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466452