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Disadvantages of Linguistic Origin – Evidence from Immigrant Literacy Scores

Isphording, Ingo - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 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,...

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Returns to Local and Foreign Language Skills – Causal Evidence from Spain

Isphording, Ingo - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2013

This study examines the returns to foreign and local language skills of immigrants in the Spanish labor market. Different sources of endogeneity are addressed by deriving a set of novel instruments for language proficiency through a measure of linguistic dissimilarity. Using cross-sectional data...

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Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation – An Analysis for Germany

Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K. - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2010

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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Labour Market Outcomes of Second Generation Immigrants: How Heterogeneous Are They Really?

Schurer, Stefani - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2008

The second and third generation of immigrants have been the centre of a lively debate about the economic integration of immigrants into their host societies, but there is little empirical evidence on the German case. In this study I comprehensively portray the labour market outcomes of second...

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Linguistic Distance and the Language Fluency of Immigrants

Isphording, Ingo E.; Otten, Sebastian - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2011

We use a newly available measure of linguistic distance developed by the German Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology to explain heterogeneity in language skills of immigrants. This measure is based on an automatical algorithm comparing pronunciation and vocabulary of language...

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Are Immigrants Graded Worse in Primary and Secondary Education? – Evidence for German Schools

Kiss, David - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2010

Using PIRLS 2001 and PISA 2003 data for Germany, this paper examines whether immigrants attending primary and secondary school are graded worse in math than comparable natives. Controlling for differences in math skills, class fixed effects regressions and results of a matching approach suggest...

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Parental Impact on Attitude Formation - A Siblings Study on Worries about Immigration

Brenner, Jan - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2007

The existing literature on attitudes towards immigration has not accounted for the potential effect of unobservable … about immigration controlling for unobserved family specific effects.Our results suggest that benchmark models used in the … literature yield inconsistent estimates of the main determinants of attitudes towards immigration. …

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Immigration and Status Exchange in Australia and the United States

Choi, Kate H.; Tienda, Marta; Cobb-Clark, Deborah; … - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2011

status exchange hypothesis for Australia and the United States, two Anglophone nations with long immigration traditions whose …

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Immigration and Structural Change – Evidence from Post-war Germany

Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2012

Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of … sectors, predicts that immigration boosts output per worker by expanding the high-productivity sector, but decreases output …

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International Labor Migration, Economic Growth and Labor Markets – The Current State of Affairs

Haisken-DeNew, John P; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Bauer, Thomas - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2004

-skilled labor, leading many European economists to argue for an immigration policy directed at actively recruiting highly qualified … workers from abroad. It has further been argued that an immigration policy that is tailored to attract young and economically …, the paper discusses expectations on future migration flows and the policy options of immigration countries for dealing …

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