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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...
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In this paper we use New Immigrant Survey data to investigate the impact of immigrant women's own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country to provide evidence on the role of human capital and culture in affecting their labor supply and wages in the United...
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fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women …. The second generation's education levels are also significantly positively affected by that of their parents, with a …
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their immigrant parents. We find, inter alia, that children of previously illegal parents are especially more likely to be …-color diversity among couples formed by U.S. citizen sponsors and immigrant spouses, and English fluency among children age 8-12 and … stratification in the unfolding of the immigrants' and their children's life chances and the impacts on the stratification structure …
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when we control for wage offers and family formation decisions, as well as when we control for the emigration rate from the … supply, a result that suggests that the female findings reflect notions of gender roles rather than overall work orientation …. Findings for another indicator of traditional gender roles, source country fertility rates, are broadly similar, with …
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. Results are obtained based on instrumental variable estimation exploiting the exogenous variation in month of birth. We find …
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gender role model. Controlling for a number of individual and household characteristics, we show that participation in the …
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This paper describes the theoretical underpinnings and provides empirical evidence for a model that predicts a positive impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by being willing and able to invest in new skills. At...
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The labor market "quality" of immigrants is a subject of debate among immigration researchers, and a major public policy concern. However, traditional methods of measuring human capital are particularly difficult to apply to recently arrived immigrants. Many factors that have a negative effect...
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its family-based admissions system or move towards a skills-based system. This paper analyzes these issues culling …
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