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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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Education, growth and income inequality
Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - 2003 - This version: February 2003
Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the private return to schooling. We present a simple explanation combining two ideas: imperfect substitution and endogenous skill-biased technological progress and use cross-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325967
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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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The effect of Sibling's gender on earnings, education and family formation
Peter, Noemi; Lundborg, Petter; Webbink, Herman Dinand - 2015 - This version: May 2015
We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010532574
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The intergenerational transmission of human capital: Exploring the role of skills and health using data on adoptees and twins
Lundborg, Petter; Nordin, Martin; Rooth, Dan Olof - 2011
In this paper, we focus on possible causal mechanisms behind the intergenerational transmission of human capital. For this purpose, we use both an adoption and a twin design and study the effect of parents' education on their children's cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282495
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337402
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Human capital formation : the importance of endogenous longevity
Galama, Titus J.; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2022
We present a theory of human capital, with its two most essential components, health capital and, what we term, skill capital, endogenously determined within the model. Using the theory, and a calibrated version of it, we uncover and highlight an important economic mechanism driving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172987
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Immigrant networks and their implications for occupational choice and wages
Patel, Krishna; Vella, Francis - 2007
country. We also consider the earnings implications of these immigrant networks for recent arrivals. The empirical evidence … positive effect on their hourly wage and their level of weekly earnings. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268554
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Occupational attainment and immigrant economic progress in Australia
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2008
augments a conventional human capital earnings function with information on occupations. It also estimates models of … occupational attainment. The results from both the earnings function and model of occupational attainment indicate that the limited …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268565