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The Complementarity of Language and Other Human Capital: Immigrant Earnings in Canada
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 … Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with … languages enhances the effects on earnings of schooling and pre-immigration labor market experience. Language proficiency and …
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Transferability of human capital and immigrant assimilation: an analysis for Germany
Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K. - 2010
This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271804
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Wages of migrant and native employees in Germany : new light on an old issue
Brunow, Stephan; Jost, Oskar - 2019
The German workforce is expected to decline in future and labour-oriented immigration should counteract labour shortages. Fair wages in Germany set incentives for foreigners to immigrate there. Therefore this paper aims to shed new light on the decomposition of the wage gap between foreign and...
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Are Immigrants Favorably Self-Selected? An Economic Analysis
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2000
criteria can ration visas on one or more characteristics that enhance labor market earnings (e.g., education), or on …
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Job mobility as a new explanation for the immigrant-native wage gap : a longitudinal analysis for the German labor market
Brenzel, Hanna; Reichelt, Malte - 2015
. Diese unterstellt Ausstattungsunterschiede oder eine Abwertung von Humankapital bei Migration. Trotzdem bleibt auch nach … Berücksichtigung von Humankapital-Variablen meist ein unerklärter Lohnunterschied zwischen Migranten und Einheimischen. Wir benutzen …
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Say it like Goethe : language learning facilities abroad and the self-selection of immigrants
Jaschke, Philipp; Keita, Sekou - In: Journal of development economics 149 (2021), pp. 1-19
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Say it like Goethe : language learning facilities abroad and the self-selection of immigrants
Jaschke, Philipp; Keita, Sekou - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung - 2019
Immigration policy in most high-income countries is designed to promote qualified migration while maintaining high requirements on characteristics such as education and language skills. We rely on a standard self-selection model with heterogeneous migration costs to discuss the effect of access...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012028241
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Ethnic concentration and human capital formation
Graaff, Thomas de; Groot, Henri L. F. de - 2004
Concentration of immigrants and its associated externalities have become an important topic in contemporary international migration research, both from a methodological as well as an empirical perspective. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it aims to provide an overview of that part...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337402
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Immigrant networks and their implications for occupational choice and wages
Patel, Krishna; Vella, Francis - 2007
country. We also consider the earnings implications of these immigrant networks for recent arrivals. The empirical evidence … positive effect on their hourly wage and their level of weekly earnings. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268554
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Occupational attainment and immigrant economic progress in Australia
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2008
augments a conventional human capital earnings function with information on occupations. It also estimates models of … occupational attainment. The results from both the earnings function and model of occupational attainment indicate that the limited …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268565