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This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation/required education/undereducation (ORU) framework (Hartog, 2000) and a decomposition of the native-born/foreign-born differential in the payoff to schooling developed by Chiswick and Miller...
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This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with proficiency in the official languages (English and...
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This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation/under-education (ORU) literature are sensitive to whether the usual or reference levels of education are measured using the Realized Matches or Worker Self-Assessment methods. The...
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The payoff to schooling among the foreign born in the US is only around one-half of the payoff for the native born. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The paper uses the Over-education/ Required...
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children age 5 to 18 years in the American Community Survey, 2005-2011. Two groups of children are considered: those born in … the US (native born) and foreign-born children who immigrated prior to age 14 (the 1.5 generation). The analyses are … conducted overall, within genders, and within racial and ethnic groups. Bilingualism is more prevalent if the parents are …
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the China Household Income Project surveys covering the same 14 provinces from 1988 to 2018 are used. We find that the … income than other categories of households. Based on estimates of income functions, we conclude that the income premium from …
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Intergenerational income elasticities are estimated using samples for urban China (covering many cities) for the years … 1995 and 2002 and compared with results from other studies. We find that the income relation between the pairs: sons and … daughters' and fathers' income is weaker. The income relationship between offspring and mothers was weaker in 1995 than in 2002 …
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times as high as the household income correlation. We find that half of the children of "visible minorities" grew up in the … average household income, to the neighbourhoods in which they grew up. We use regression analysis on register data for all … income in Sweden became far more unequal, unemployment rose dramatically, earlier housing policies were dismantled, the share …
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The objective of this paper is to examine the extent to which an individual's use of unemployment insurance (UI) as a young adult is influenced by past experience with the program, and by having had a parent who also collected UI. A major methodological challenge is to determine the extent to...
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