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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 …

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Are immigrants favorably self-selected? : an economic analysis

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2000

the primary focus is on international migration, reference is made to internal migration and return migration. The … favorable selectivity is more intense the greater the out-of-pocket (direct) costs of migration and return migration, the … greater the effect of the higher level of ability on lowering the costs of migration, and the smaller the relative skill …

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Social contacts, Dutch language proficiency and immigrant economic performance in the Netherlands : a longitudinal study

Chiswick, Barry R.; Wang, Zhiling - 2016

Using longitudinal data on immigrants in the Netherlands for the years 1991, 1994, 1998, 2002, we examined the impacts of social contacts and Dutch language proficiency on adult foreign-born men's earnings, employment and occupational status. The main conclusions are as follows. On average,...

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Social contacts and the economic performance of immigrants : a panel study of immigrants in Germany

Kanas, Agnieszka; Chiswick, Barry R.; Lippe, Tanja van der - 2011

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examined the impact of social contacts on immigrant occupational status and income. In addition to general social contacts, we also analyzed the effects of bonding (i.e., co-ethnic) and bridging (i.e., interethnic) ties on economic outcomes....

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Negative and positive assimilation by prices and by quantities

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2013

This paper considers the labor market assimilation of immigrants in terms of earnings and employment (employment probability, unemployment probability, and hours worked per week). Using the 2006 Australian Census of Population and Housing the analyses are performed separately by gender, and...

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Computer skills, destination language proficiency and the earnings of natives and immigrants

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor); … - 2005

suggests a high degree of favorable selection in migration. Study of the links between earnings, computer use and other human …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003115142

The economics of language : an introduction and overview

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor) - 2008

This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and benefits associated with this characteristic embodied in the...

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The occupations of free women and substitution with enslaved workers in the antebellum United States

Chiswick, Barry R.; Robinson, RaeAnn H. - 2022

This paper analyzes the occupational status and distribution of free women in the antebellum United States. It considers both their reported and unreported (imputed) occupations, using the 1/100 IPUMS files from the 1860 Census of Population. After developing and testing the model based on...

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The determinants of the geographic concentration among immigrants : application to Australia

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

related to age at migration, duration of residence in Australia and the proportion of the birthplace group that is fluent in …

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Immigrants' language skills and visa category

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

This paper is concerned with the determinants of English language proficiency among immigrants in a longitudinal survey for Australia. It focuses on both visa category and variables derived from an economic model of the determinants of destination language proficiency among immigrants. Skills...

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