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Even Education and Experience has its Limits: Closing the Wage Gap
Epstein, Gil S.; Gafni, Dalit; Siniver, Erez - 2015
Economic outcomes are compared for university graduates in Israel belonging to four different ethnic groups. A unique dataset is used that includes all individuals who graduated with a first degree from universities and colleges in Israel between the years 1995 and 2008 and which tracks them for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532982
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Parents and Children Talk: The Family Dynamics of English Language Proficiency
Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2004
This paper extends the analysis of the acquisition of destination language proficiency among immigrants by explicitly … duration of residence, the higher the level of education, and for immigrants not from Asia. Large positive correlations in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532864
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Age at Immigration and High School Dropouts
Goldner, Sarit Cohen; Epstein, Gil S. - 2014
dropout rate and age of arrival of the immigrants. Using repeated cross sectional data from the Israeli Labor Force Surveys of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532912
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Networks in the Diaspora
Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler (Cohen), Odelia - 2016
In this paper, we examine possible types of network formation among immigrants in the diaspora and between those … immigrants and the locals in different countries. We present the model by considering different possible interactions between … immigrants and the new society in their host country. Spread of migrants from the same origin in the diaspora may well increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533131
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Parents and Children Talk: The Family Dynamics of English Language Proficiency
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W.; Lee, Yew Liang - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2004
This paper extends the analysis of the acquisition of destination language proficiency among immigrants by explicitly … duration of residence, the higher the level of education, and for immigrants not from Asia. Large positive correlations in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967960
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Are there gender and county of origin differences in immigrant labor market outcomes across European destinations?
Adserà, Alícia; Chiswick, Barry R. - In: Journal of population economics 20 (2007) 3, pp. 495-526
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003498423
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Family matters : the role of the family in immigrants' destination language acquisition
Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - In: Journal of population economics 18 (2005) 4, pp. 631-647
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003233712
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Occupational language requirements and the value of English in the US labor market
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - In: Journal of population economics 23 (2010) 1, pp. 353-372
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003922936
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Interactions between local and migrant workers at the workplace
Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2010
In this paper we consider the interaction between local workers and migrants in the production process of a firm. Both local workers and migrants can invest effort in assimilation activities in order to increase the assimilation of the migrants into the firm and so by increase their interaction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009317943
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Stepping stones for the unemployed : the effect of temporary jobs on the duration until (regular) work
Graaf-Zijl, Marloes de; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Heyma, … - In: Journal of population economics 24 (2011) 1, pp. 107-139
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008842294