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Firms, sorting, and the immigrant-native earnings gap : the immigrant-native earnings gap is due in part to firm-specific factors resulting from differential sorting of workers int...
Dostie, Benoît - 2022
Recent research has tried to quantify how firms contribute to the immigrant-native earnings gap. Findings from several …
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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...
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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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Why does unemployment differ for immigrants? : unemployment risk varies greatly across immigrant groups depending on language skills, culture, and religion
Drinkwater, Stephen J. - 2017
The adverse effects of unemployment are a cause for concern for all demographic groups but they will be most acute for those experiencing the highest unemployment rates. In particular, high levels of unemployment are observed for a range of immigrant groups across many countries. However, there...
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Language proficiency and immigrants' economic integration : It is vital to measure language proficiency well, as it crucially determines immigrants’ earnings
Daley, Angela; Hu, Min; Warman, Casey - 2019
, India, China), which has coincided with poor economic integration. Language proficiency is an important determinant of … earnings, a key indicator of economic integration. …
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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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Skill-based immigration, economic integration, and economic performance : benefiting from highly skilled immigrants requires a complementary mix of immigrant selection and economic...
Aydemir, Abdurrahman - 2014
Studies for major immigrant-receiving countries provide evidence on the comparative economic performance of immigrant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416488
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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...
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The value of language skills : a common language facilitates communication and economic efficiency, but linguistic diversity has economic and cultural value too
Grenier, Gilles; Zhang, Weiguo - 2021
In today's globalized world, people are increasingly mobile and often need to communicate across different languages. Learning a new language is an investment in human capital. Migrants must learn the language of their destination country, but even non-migrants must often learn other languages...
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