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Educational Attainment and Labor Market Performance : An Analysis of Immigrants in France
Akgüc, Mehtap - 2015
Using a recent survey of immigrants to France, we provide a detailed analysis of the educational attainment and labor market performance of various sub-population groups in France. Our results indicate that immigrants to France are less educated than the native born and that these differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013025296
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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
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The effects of 9/11 on attitudes toward immigration and the moderating role of education
Schüller, Simone - 2012
immediate shift of around 40 percent of one within standard deviation to more negative attitudes toward immigration and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291416
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The Effects of 9/11 on Attitudes Toward Immigration and the Moderating Role of Education
Schüller, Simone - 2012
immediate shift of around 40 percent of one within standard deviation to more negative attitudes toward immigration and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096449
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Quotas and Quality : The Effect of H-1b Visa Restrictions on the Pool of Prospective Undergraduate Students from Abroad
Kato, Takao - 2010
effect estimates show that the restrictive immigration policy has had an adverse impact on the quality of prospective … restrictive immigration policy disproportionately discourages high-ability international students from attending US schools. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141767
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The economic situation of first- and second-generation immigrants in France, Germany, and the UK
Algan, Yann; Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht; … - 2009
A central concern about immigration is the integration into the labour market, not only of the first generation, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269480
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Intergenerational mobility and self-selection of asylum seekers in Germany
Kolb, Michael; Neidhöfer, Guido; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2019 - This version, 13 June 2019
We exploit a novel survey of recently arrived asylum seekers in Germany in order to estimate the degree of intergenerational mobility in education among refugees and compare it to the educational mobility of similar-aged individuals in their region of origin. The findings show that the refugees...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012034744
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Quotas and quality: The effect of H-1B visa restrictions on the pool of prospective undergraduate students from abroad
Kato, Takao; Sparber, Chad - 2010
effect estimates show that the restrictive immigration policy has had an adverse impact on the quality of prospective … restrictive immigration policy disproportionately discourages high-ability international students from attending US schools. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269823
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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
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Immigration and status exchange in Australia and the United States
Choi, Kate H.; Tienda, Marta; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; … - 2011
status exchange hypothesis for Australia and the United States, two Anglophone nations with long immigration traditions whose …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285983