Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 94
Cover Image
Human Capital and Ethnic Self-Identification of Migrants
Zimmermann, Laura; Gataullina, Liliya; Constant, Amelie; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
The paper investigates the role of human capital for migrants' ethnic ties towards their home and host countries. Pre-migration characteristics dominate ethnic self-identification. Human capital acquired in the host country does not affect the attachment to the receiving country.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703405
Cover Image
Ethnic Identity and Work
Constant, Amelie F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
identity is a major issue; even more challenging is to measure its impact on economic outcomes such as the probability to work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959840
Cover Image
Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel
Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. However, in some countries where labor markets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761793
Cover Image
Ethnicity and the Immigration of Highly Skilled Workers to the United States
Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic … components of ethnicity – country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion – among persons admitted to legal permanent …. India dominates EB-2 and European countries EB-1. (2) The ethnicity portfolio contains more languages than religions. (3 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004999162
Cover Image
Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762078
Cover Image
Remittances and Gender: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence
Holst, Elke; Schäfer, Andrea; Schrooten, Mechthild - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In this paper, we focus on network- and gender-specific determinants of remittances, which are often explained …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836668
Cover Image
Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance? Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the literature, the question of identifying this relationship empirically has only begun to be explored. Using a unique representative survey of 1500 immigrants in the Greater Dublin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884255
Cover Image
Disadvantages of Linguistic Origin: Evidence from Immigrant Literacy Scores
Isphording, Ingo E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This study quantifies the disadvantage in the formation of literacy skills of immigrants that arises from the linguistic distance between mother tongue and host country language. Combining unique cross-country data on literacy scores with information on the linguistic distance between languages,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884270
Cover Image
Linguistic Barriers in the Destination Language Acquisition of Immigrants
Isphording, Ingo E.; Otten, Sebastian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
There are various degrees of similarity between the languages of different immigrants and the language of their destination country. This linguistic distance is an obstacle to the acquisition of a language, which leads to large differences in the attainments of the language skills necessary for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884309
Cover Image
Citizenship in the United States: The Roles of Immigrant Characteristics and Country of Origin
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This study develops and estimates a model of the naturalization process in the US. The model is based on both the characteristics of immigrants and features of their countries of origin. The empirical analysis is based on the 2000 US Census. Both the characteristics of immigrants and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005247691