Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 94
Cover Image
An Explanation for the Lower Payoff to Schooling for Immigrants in the Canadian Labour Market
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2009
immigrants' human capital, and under-education to favourable selection in immigration. The results show that immigrants have a … effects of under-education, or selection in immigration, are, however, twice as large as the effects of over-education, or … limited international transferability of human capital. Favourable selection in immigration appears to be less important in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155548
Cover Image
Educational Mismatch : Are High-Skilled Immigrants Really Working at High-Skilled Jobs and the Price They Pay If They Aren't?
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2009
This paper examines the incidence of the mismatch of the educational attainment and the occupation of employment, and the impact of this mismatch on the earnings, of high-skilled adult male immigrants in the US labor market. Analyses for high-skilled adult male native-born workers are also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158064
Cover Image
Linguistic and Economic Adjustment Among Immigrants in Israel
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2016
, primary reasons for immigration, the subsidized intensive Hebrew language training program (ulpan), Ethiopian Jews, and Jewish … and non-Jewish immigrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU), in addition to standard immigration, demographic, and human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982969
Cover Image
Citizenship in the United States : The Roles of Immigrant Characteristics and Country of Origin
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2021
This study develops and estimates a model of the naturalization process in the US. The model is based on both the characteristics of immigrants and features of their countries of origin. The empirical analysis is based on the 2000 US Census. Both the characteristics of immigrants and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325078
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
High skilled immigration in the international arena
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2005
This conceptual paper, prepared for a United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Migration and Development, is concerned with the international mobility of high-skilled workers, previously referred to as the brain drain. After discussing the historical background of high-skilled international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267688
Cover Image
High Skilled Immigration in the International Arena
Chiswick, Barry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This conceptual paper, prepared for a United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Migration and Development, is concerned with the international mobility of high-skilled workers, previously referred to as the "brain drain". After discussing the historical background of high-skilled international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822208
Cover Image
Occupational Language Requirements and the Value of English in the U.S. Labor Market
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2007
This paper is concerned with the English language requirements (both level and importance) of occupations in the United States, as measured by the O*NET database. These scores are linked to microdata on employed adult (aged 25 to 64) males, both native born and foreign born, as reported in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777274
Cover Image
Are There Gender and Country of Origin Differences in Immigrant Labor Market Outcomes across European Destinations?
Adsera, Alicia; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2004
labor market performance of immigrants across gender related to duration in the destination, schooling, age at immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262167
Cover Image
The linguistic and economic adjustment of Soviet Jewish immigrants in the United States, 1980 to 2000
Chiswick, Barry R.; Wenz, Michael - 2005
This paper is an analysis of the English-language proficiency and labor market earnings of adult male Soviet Jewish immigrants to the United States from 1965 to 2000, using the 2000 Census of Population. Comparisons are made to similar analyses using the 1980 and 1990 Censuses. A consistent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267525