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Migration, Crisis and Adjustment in an Enlarged E(M)U: The Spanish Perspective
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; Farré, Lídia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper investigates the labour market and welfare changes experienced by enlarged-EU migrants before and after 2007. For this purpose, we briefly review the Spanish socio-economic institutional background, as well as its migration policy towards enlarged-EU citizens. Then we discuss the...
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Language and Labor Market Success
Isphording, Ingo E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This article summarizes three different strands of the literature that address the labor market effects of language-related human capital. (1) A general importance is demonstrated in the empirical evidence on earnings and employment effects of literacy as the ability to productively use written...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959721
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The Impact of Language Proficiency on Immigrants' Earnings in Spain
Budría, Santiago; Swedberg, Pablo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This article uses micro-data from the Spanish National Immigrant Survey to investigate the impact of Spanish language proficiency on immigrants' earnings. The results, based on Instrumental Variables (IV), point to a substantial earnings return to Spanish proficiency, of approximately 27%. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960129
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The Wage Premium of Foreign Education: New Evidence from Australia
Chan, Gavin; Heaton, Christopher; Tani, Massimiliano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We study whether Australian employers recognise immigrants' education acquired abroad, and if so how. Using data from the Longitudinal Surveys of Immigrants in Australia, we apply interval regression to model migrant hourly earnings. We find substantially higher returns from human capital...
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Migrant Educational Mismatch and the Labour Market
Piracha, Matloob; Vadean, Florin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper reviews the literature on educational mismatch of immigrants in the labour market of destination countries. It draws on the theoretical arguments postulated in the labour economics literature and discusses their extension in the analysis of the causes and effects of immigrants'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279355
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The Portability of New Immigrants' Human Capital: Language, Education and Occupational Matching
Goldmann, Gustave; Sweetman, Arthur; Warman, Casey - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
post-immigration occupational matching – for earnings are explored for new immigrants to Canada. Given the importance of …. However, surprisingly, neither matching nor language skills have any impact on the return to pre-immigration work experience … appreciable direct impact on earnings, and to mediate the return to pre-immigration education but not labour market experience. …
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Substitution Between Individual and Cultural Capital: Pre-Migration Labor Supply, Culture and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Woman
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009225774
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Mind the Gap: A Detailed Picture of the Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap in the UK Using Longitudinal Data Between 1978 and 2006
Lemos, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
primarily rewards individual characteristics other than immigration status. We also found that the lowest paid immigrants, whom … proportionately larger non-white and lower paid white immigration. …
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How Immigration May Affect U.S. Native Entrepreneurship: Theoretical Building Blocks and Preliminary Results
Duleep, Harriet; Jaeger, David A.; Regets, Mark - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010555771
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The Transmission of Women's Fertility, Human Capital and Work Orientation across Immigrant Generations
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Liu, Albert Yung-Hsu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Using 1995–2006 Current Population Survey and 1970–2000 Census data, we study the intergenerational transmission of fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women's fertility and labor supply are significantly...
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