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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262796
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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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Wage and Occupational Assimilation by Skill Level
Alcobendas, Miguel - 2012
While much of the literature on immigrants' assimilation has focused on countries with a large tradition of receiving immigrants and with flexible labor markets, very little is known on how immigrants adjust to other types of host economies. With its severe dual labor market, and an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106297
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Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation : An Analysis for Germany
Basilio, Leilanie - 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/10013148336
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262350
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Explaining the Male Native-Immigrant Employment Gap in Sweden : The Role of Human Capital and Migrant Categories
Luik, Marc-André - 2016
Despite having one of the most celebrated labor market integration policies, the native-immigrant employment gap in Sweden is one of the largest among the OECD countries. In this study, we use unique Swedish register data to try to explain the employment gap between male immigrants and natives....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990867
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Earnings and Occupational Attainment : Immigrants and the Native Born
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2010
This paper examines the determinants of occupational attainment and the impact of occupation on earnings. Results for … both the native born and foreign born are presented, and these provide insights as to the earnings penalties associated … earnings gains associated with years of schooling derives from inter-occupational mobility. When occupation is held constant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014051636
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The Portability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation : Evidence for Spain
Sanroma, Esteban; Ramos, Raul; Simon, Hipolito - 2021
assimilation upon arrival in the new country, as well as the wide initial earnings gap. Recent studies (Chiswick and Miller, 2007 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325025
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Job and Wage Mobility in a Search Model with Non-Compliance (Exemptions) with the Minimum Wage
Eckstein, Zvi - 2007
How well does a simple search on-the-job model fit the eighteen years of job and wage mobility of high school graduates? To answer this question we are confronted from the data with a prevalent non-compliance and exemptions from the minimum wage. We incorporate this observation in a job search...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778520
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Education Driving the Rise in Dutch Female Employment: Explanations for the Increase in Part-time Work and Female Employment in the Netherlands, Contrasted with Germany
Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2001
Over the last 15 years, the Netherlands has experienced a tremendous jobs boom, mainly in services and female employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct utility of work, we find that institutional arrangements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262608