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Human Capital and Earnings of Female Immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States
Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2002
Census data for 1990/91 indicate that Australian and Canadian female immigrants have higher levels of English fluency, education (relative to native-born women), and income (relative to native-born women) than do U.S. female immigrants. A prominent explanation for this skill deficit of U.S....
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Electoral participation as a measure of social inclusion for natives, immigrants and descendants in Sweden
Bevelander, Pieter; Pendakur, Ravi - 2008
Three decades ago, Sweden extended municipal and county voting privileges to non-citizen residents arguing that it would increase political influence, interest and self-esteem among foreign citizens. Three decades later, electoral participation on the part of immigrants is perceived as being...
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Intergenerational Progress of Mexican-Origin Workers in the U.S. Labor Market
Trejo, Stephen J. - 2001
generations of Mexican-origin men. I find that the sizable earnings advantage U.S.-born Mexican Americans enjoy over Mexican … assimilation, my estimates indicate that a discrete jump in earnings and the wage structure occurs between the first and second … fluency that occur between the second and third generations do not appear to raise the earnings of Mexican Americans any …
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How do immigrants spend their time? The process of assimilation
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2010
Using 2004-2008 data from the American Time Use Survey, we show that sharp differences between the time use of immigrants and natives become noticeable when activities are distinguished by incidence and intensity. We develop a theory of the process of assimilation - what immigrants do with their...
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The self-employment of immigrants and natives in Sweden: To what extent is it the 'immigrant group' or the 'labour market context' that affects the self-employment of individuals i...
Ohlsson, Henrik; Broomé, Per; Bevelander, Pieter - 2010
Earlier studies on entrepreneurship and self-employment among immigrants call attention to the fact that also the market for self-employment or entrepreneurs consists of a supply and demand side as well as the interaction between these two. More recent research suggests that a mix of personal...
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Assimilation via Prices or Quantities? Labor Market Institutions and Immigrant Earnings Growth in Australia, Canada, and the United States
Antecol, Heather; Kuhn, Peter; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2003
How do international differences in labor market institutions affect the nature of immigrant earnings assimilation … wage assimilation is an important source of immigrant earnings growth in both Canada and the United States, but the …
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