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Longitudinal Analysis of Immigrant Occupational Mobility: A Test of the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

Using an immigrant assimilation framework, this paper develops a model of the occupational mobility of immigrants and tests the hypotheses using data on adult males from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia. The theoretical model generates hypotheses regarding a U-shaped pattern of...

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Low-skilled immigrant entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009

the returns to self-employment among low-skilled immigrants. We compare annual earnings and earnings growth of immigrant … financially rewarding option for most low-skilled immigrants. An exception is immigrant men, who are found to have higher earnings … growth than immigrants in wage/salary employment and are predicted to reach earnings parity after approximately 10 years in …

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Parents and Children Talk : The Family Dynamics of English Language Proficiency

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2004

This paper extends the analysis of the acquisition of destination language proficiency among immigrants by explicitly incorporating dynamics among family members – mother, father and children. Single equation, bivariate, and four-state (multivariate) probit analyses are employed. Immigrant...

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Labor Market Assimilation and the Self- Employment Decision of Immigrant Entrepreneurs

Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999

-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage/salary workers are estimated. To control for endogenous … the population and average earnings ratios are used as instruments to control for self-selection into self-employment and … consequently identify the inverse Mills correction term in the earnings models. Self-employed immigrants do substantially better in …

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Immigrant Assimilation and Welfare Participation: Do Immigrants Assimilate Into or Out-of Welfare

Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999

This paper analyzes differences in welfare utilization between immigrants and natives in Sweden using a large panel data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased in Sweden in the 1990?s. We find that immigrants use welfare to a greater extent...

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Self-Employment and Earnings among High-Skilled Immigrants in the United States

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2000

. Predicted earnings of self-employed immigrants are higher throughout most of their work life relative to wage/salary immigrants … predicted earnings across national origin group of self-employed immigrants. The low variation in predicted earnings across …

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Immigration Policy, Assimilation of Immigrants and Natives' Sentiments towards Immigrants: Evidence from 12 OECD-Countries

Bauer, Thomas K.; Lofstrom, Magnus; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2000

migration and contribute to a better economic performance of the respective countries. …

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Labor Market Conditions and Post-Reform Declines in Welfare Receipt Among Immigrants

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bean, Frank D. - 2001

Considerable research attention has been devoted to the question of whether and to what extent changes in welfare policy legislated in the 1990s might have deterred immigrant participation in welfare programs, although only post-1996 immigrants were explicitly targeted by most of the changes....

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Immigrants' Language Skills: The Australian Experience in a Longitudinal Survey

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

This paper is concerned with the determinants of English language proficiency (speaking, reading and writing) among immigrants. It presents a model of immigrant destination language acquisition based on economic incentives, exposure to the destination language, and efficiency in second language...

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Immigrants' Language Skills and Visa Category

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

This paper is concerned with the determinants of English language proficiency among immigrants in a longitudinal survey for Australia. It focuses on both visa category and variables derived from an economic model of the determinants of destination language proficiency among immigrants. Skills...

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