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Previous studies show that immigrants married to natives earn higher wages than immigrants married to other immigrants …
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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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The existing literature on immigrant assimilation has highlighted the imperfect portability of human capital acquired by immigrants in their country of origin (Chiswick, 1978; Friedberg, 2000). This would explain the low levels of assimilation upon arrival in the new country, as well as the wide...
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countries and in Spain. It also examines the impact on wages of the legal status. The evidence shows that returns to host …
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migrants, destination language skills display both a prerequisite for and outcome of successful integration. Investments into …
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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 are characterized by employment growth, skill shortages and a good … the wages of various sub-sections of the labor force, in particular of minorities and disadvantaged groups. In this paper …
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This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...
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. Instrumental variables and quantile treatment effects estimates of the returns to an occupational license indicate excess wages due … acquisition which suggests that the wages of high-skilled immigrant physicians in the nonphysician sector outweigh the lower …
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The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied extensively. In the Swedish context this question is of great policy relevance due to the high levels of refugee migration and inflow of tied movers. Using Swedish register data...
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This paper is concerned with the determinants and consequences of immigrant/linguistic concentrations (enclaves). The reasons for the formation of these concentrations are discussed. Hypotheses are developed regarding "ethnic goods" and the effect of concentrations on the immigrant’s language...
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