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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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Unequal migration and urbanisation gains in China
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Démurger, Sylvie; Li, Shi; … - In: Journal of development economics 142 (2020)
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012233152
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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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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 rising returns to education in urban China in the 1990s
Liu, Xuejun; Park, Albert; Zhao, Yaohui - 2010
the rapid increase in the returns to education experienced by China during the 1990s. Analyzing Chinese urban household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269848
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Human capital, entrepreneurship, and farm household earnings
Yang, Dennis Tao; An, Mark Yuying - In: Journal of development economics 68 (2002) 1, pp. 65-88
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001674341
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The value of children : inter-generational support, fertility, and human capital
Oliveira, Jaqueline - In: Journal of development economics 120 (2016), pp. 1-16
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011637271
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The unintended impacts of agricultural fires : human capital in China
Zivin, Joshua S. Graff; Liu, Tong; Song, Yingquan; Tang, Qu - In: Journal of development economics 147 (2020)
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The effect of air pollution on migration : evidence from China
Chen, Shuai; Oliva, Paulina; Zhang, Peng - In: Journal of development economics 156 (2022), pp. 1-14
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Land titling, human capital misallocation, and agricultural productivity in China
Liu, Shouying; Ma, Sen; Yin, Lijuan; Zhu, Jiong - In: Journal of development economics 165 (2023), pp. 1-24
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014463888