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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 …
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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...
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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 …
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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 …
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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...
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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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Ethnic concentration and human capital formation
Graaff, Thomas de; Groot, Henri L. F. de - 2004
Concentration of immigrants and its associated externalities have become an important topic in contemporary international migration research, both from a methodological as well as an empirical perspective. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it aims to provide an overview of that part...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337402
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Substitution between individual and source country characteristics : social capital, culture, and US labor market outcomes among immigrant women
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2015 - Revised June 2014
earnings among the employed. …
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Refugees' and irregular migrants' self-selection into Europe : who migrates where?
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu - 2019
About 1.4 million refugees and irregular migrants arrived in Europe in 2015 and 2016. We model how refugees and irregular migrants are self-selected. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World Polls, we provide the first large-scale evidence on...
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