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The Complementarity of Language and Other Human Capital: Immigrant Earnings in Canada
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
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 … languages enhances the effects on earnings of schooling and pre-immigration labor market experience. Language proficiency and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262796
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Transferability of human capital and immigrant assimilation: an analysis for Germany
Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271804
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Real and monetary challenges to wage policy in Germany at the turn of the millennium : technical progress, globalization and European monetary union
Franz, Wolfgang - 1999
At the turn of the millennium three frequently cited potential causes of new challenges for wage p olicy in Germany are revisited in this study: skilled-biased technological progress, the increasing international integration of labor and product markets, and the monetary integration of the EMU....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781695
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Decomposing migrant self-selection : education, occupation, and unobserved abilities
Kauppinen, Ilpo; Poutvaara, Panu - 2023
positively self-selected in terms of education and earnings. We also find strong evidence of sorting: men who emigrate outside … Nordic countries are considerably better educated and have higher earnings and residual earning than men who emigrate to … Nordic countries. Most of the self-selection in terms of higher earnings can be explained by emigrants being more educated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014247383
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Slowdown in immigration, labor shortages, and declining skill premia
Mandelman, Federico S.; Yu, Yang; Zanetti, Francesco; … - 2024
performance and welfare. Lower immigration leads to higher wages for low-skilled workers and higher consumer prices. Importantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014578538
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Are Immigrants Favorably Self-Selected? An Economic Analysis
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2000
criteria can ration visas on one or more characteristics that enhance labor market earnings (e.g., education), or on …
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Skill, innovation and wage inequality : can immigrants be the Trump Card?
Das, Gouranga Gopal; Marjit, Sugata; Kar, Mausumi - 2019
With the ensuing immigration reform in the US, the paper shows that targeted skilled immigration into the R&D sector that helps low-skilled labor is conducive for controlling inequality and raising wage. Skilled talent-led innovation could have spillover benefits for the unskilled sector while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012057300
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Skill, innovation and wage inequality : can immigrants be the Trump Card?
Das, Gouranga Gopal; Marjit, Sugata - 2018 - This Draft May 2018
With the ensuing immigration reform in the US, the paper shows that targeted skilled immigration into the R&D sector that helps low-skilled labor is conducive for controlling inequality and raising wage. Skilled talent-led innovation could have spillover benefits for the unskilled sector while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011862868
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Labor market effects of a minimum wage : evidence from Ecuadorian monthly administrative data
Choi, Jaerim; Rivadeneyra, Ivan; Ramirez, Kenia - 2021
When Ecuador raised its monthly Unified Minimum Wage from $170 to $200 in 2008, it affected 35 percent of all private sector workers. We use this unexpected minimum wage hike under former president Rafael Correa to assess the labor market impacts of the minimum wage. We use an administrative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012495684
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Education Driving the Rise in Dutch Female Employment: Explanations for the Increase in Part-time Work and Female Employment in the Netherlands, Contrasted with Germany
Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2001
Over the last 15 years, the Netherlands has experienced a tremendous jobs boom, mainly in services and female employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct utility of work, we find that institutional arrangements...
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