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Matching language proficiency to occupation : the effect on immigrants' earnings
Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor);  … - 2007
that earnings are related to correct matching of an individual's language skills and that of his occupation. Moreover, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003449481
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Occupational language requirements and the value of English in the US labor market
Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor);  … - 2007
native born and foreign born, as reported in the 2000 Census, one percent sample. Working in an occupation that requires … required for the occupation, and when those with high levels of proficiency work in jobs requiring English language skills … occupation's requirements, and this matching does tend to occur in the labor market. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003539238
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The international transferability of immigrants' human capital skills
Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper uses the approach in the under/over education literature to analyze the extent of matching of educational level to occupational attainment among adult native born and foreign born men in the U.S., using the 2000 Census. Overeducation is found to be more common among recent labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003540026
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Earnings and occupational attainment : immigrants and the native born
Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper examines the determinants of occupational attainment and the impact of occupation on earnings. Results for … earnings gains associated with years of schooling derives from inter-occupational mobility. When occupation is held constant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003540029
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Does the choice of reference levels of education matter in the ORU earnings equation?
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009
, by level of skill, and by occupation. While point estimates differ, particularly when earnings equations are estimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003894826
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Trainspotting : "good jobs", training and skilled immigration
Mountford, Andrew; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2019
While skilled immigration ceteris paribus provides an immediate boost to GDP per capita by adding to the human capital stock of the receiving economy, might it also reduce the number of 'good jobs', i.e. those with training, available to indigenous workers? We analyse this issue theoretically...
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Persistent occupational hierarchies among immigrant worker groups in the United States labor market
Postepska, Agnieszka; Vella, Francis - 2017
This paper examines the phenomenon of occupational hierarchies among immigrant labor groups in the United States. Using census data for 1940-2011 we document the persistent ranking of immigrant labor groups in major metropolitan areas reflected by their position in the empirical distribution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607514
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A comparative analysis of the labour market performance of university‐educated immigrants in Australia, Canada, and the United States : does policy matter?
Clarke, Andrew; Ferrer, Ana M.; Skuterud, Mikal - 2018
We examine data from Australia, Canada, and the U.S. to inform the potential for immigrant screening policies to influence the labour market performance of skilled immigrants. Our estimates point to improvements in employment rates and weekly earnings of male university-educated immigrants in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798252
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English skills, labour market status and earnings of Turkish women
Di Paolo, Antonio; Tansel, Aysıt - 2019
) occupation dummies are included as additional controls. Indeed, being proficient in English barely affects occupational status …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011979898
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International emigrant selection on occupational skills
Patt, Alexander; Ruhose, Jens; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2017
We present the first evidence that international emigrant selection on education and earnings materializes through occupational skills. Combining novel data from a representative Mexican task survey with rich individual-level worker data, we find that Mexican migrants to the United States have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011671012