Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 337
Cover Image
The Elusive Concept of Immigrant Quality: Evidence from 1970-1990
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2002
The labor market "quality" of immigrants is a subject of debate among immigration researchers, and a major public … in the immigration flows from different countries, sampling error, and the effects of emigration – is fundamentally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262373
Cover Image
The effects of school quality in the origin on the payoff to schooling for immigrants
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2010
The payoff to schooling among the foreign born in the US is only around one-half of the payoff for the native born. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The paper uses the Over-education/ Required...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272661
Cover Image
The impact of language proficiency on immigrants' earnings in Spain
Budría, Santiago; Swedberg, Pablo - 2012
This article uses micro-data from the Spanish National Immigrant Survey to investigate the impact of Spanish language proficiency on immigrants' earnings. The results, based on Instrumental Variables (IV), point to a substantial earnings return to Spanish proficiency, of approximately 27%. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289905
Cover Image
ORU analyses of immigrant earnings in Australia, with international comparisons
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009
international transferability of immigrants' human capital, and undereducation to favorable selection in immigration. Comparisons …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269488
Cover Image
Does the choice of reference levels of education matter in the ORU earnings equation?
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009
This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation/under-education (ORU) literature are sensitive to whether the usual or reference levels of education are measured using the Realized Matches or Worker Self-Assessment methods. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271256
Cover Image
The economic impact of EU-enlargement: assessing the migration potential
Fertig, Michael - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 26 (2001) 4, pp. 707-720
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001625675
Cover Image
Does host-country education mitigate immigrant inefficiency? : evidence from earnings of Australian university graduates
Sarkar, Dipanwita; Collier, Trevor C. - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 56 (2019) 1, pp. 81-106
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012040726
Cover Image
Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - 2000
We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during a period ranging between 1980 and 1995. We focus on within-educational-levels wage inequality by estimating quantile regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262344
Cover Image
The effect of education policy on crime: An intergenerational perspective
Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten; Schnabel, Marieke - 2011
affected by the reform. We consider the effects of a major Swedish educational reform on crime by exploiting its staggered … implementation across Sweden. We first show that the reform reduced crime rates for the generation directly affected by the reform …. We then show that the benefits extended to the next generation with large reductions in the crime rates of the children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282489
Cover Image
Exposure to a school shooting and subsequent well-being
Levine, Phillip B.; McKnight, Robin - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424313