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composition of migrants in major destination countries, including the US, has been rising over the last 4 decades. Moreover, the … population share of skilled migrants has been approaching or exceeding that of skilled natives. We offer theoretical propositions …, population, income growth and distribution, and migration trends are endogenous. We derive new insights about the impact of …
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We examine the effect of language acquisition on the growth of immigrants' earnings. We gathered data on recent Soviet … immigrants to Israel that include retrospective questions on earnings and language ability on entry into their current job …. Language acquisition is found to interact positively with occupation level. Immigrant programmers and computer technicians have …
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spoken by children of migrants with identical ancestral countries of origin, the analysis indicates that the presence of …
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This paper considers the interpretation of "Mincer rates of return." We test and reject the Mincer model. It fails to track the time series of true returns. We show how repeated cross section and panel data improves the ability of analysts to estimate the ex ante and ex post marginal rate of...
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This paper synthesizes what economists have learned about human capital since Becker (1962) into four stylized facts. First, human capital explains at least one-third of the variation in labor earnings within countries and at least half of the variation across countries. Second, human capital...
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The earnings and occupational task requirements of immigrants to Canada are analyzed. The growing education levels of …
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complete until 13 to 22 years after entry into Canada. These results are revealed clearly in both the pseudo-longitudinal and … skills declined following changes in Canada's immigration policies in 1974 that led to a sharp increase in the proportion of … increases with their duration of stay in Canada, and since there are no differential immigrant-native changes in higher …
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We present new evidence of the correlation of height with important socioeconomic outcomes, finding the height profile is significantly non linear at mean height, especially for males. We trace this non linearity back to the adult height profiles of cognitive scores from the teenage and...
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internal rates of return that take into account tuition costs, income taxes and nonlinearities in the earnings …
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The majority of armed forces veterans make use of the subsidized training and educational benefits provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs. The effect of veterans benefits on educational attainment am civilian earnings is estimated here using the Census Bureau's 1987 Survey of Veterans....
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