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Schooling, literacy, numeracy and labor market success

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

This paper uses data from the 1996 Australian Survey of Aspects of Literacy to examine the effects on labour market outcomes of literacy, numeracy and educational attainment. The survey includes a range of literacy and numeracy variables that are highly inter-correlated. A "general to specific"...

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The employment, unemployment and unemployment compensation benefits of immigrants

Hurst, Michael; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2000

This report analyzes the employment and unemployment experiences of adult foreign-born men, both among themselves and … dependent variables are analyzed, weeks worked (employment) in 1989, unemployment status in the reference week in 1990, and a … employment and unemployment of schooling, labor market experience, marital status and the agricultural sector, in addition to …

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Educational attainment: analysis by immigrant generation

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Where immigrants settle in the United States

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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The linguistic and economic adjustment of Soviet Jewish immigrants in the United States, 2000 : a preliminary report

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor); Wenz, Michael (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Does the choice of reference levels of education matter in the ORU earnings equation?

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation/under-education (ORU) literature are sensitive to whether the usual or reference levels of education are measured using the Realized Matches or Worker Self-Assessment methods. The...

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ORU analyses of immigrant earnings in Australia, with international comparisons

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation/required education/undereducation (ORU) framework (Hartog, 2000) and a decomposition of the native-born/foreign-born differential in the payoff to schooling developed by Chiswick and Miller...

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Religion and child health

Chiswick, Barry R.; Mirtcheva, Donka M. - 2010

This paper examines the determinants of the health of children ages 6 to 19, as reported in the Child Development Supplements (CDS) to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The primary focus is on the effect of religion on the reported overall health and psychological health of the child....

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Negative and positive assimilation by prices and by quantities

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2013

This paper considers the labor market assimilation of immigrants in terms of earnings and employment (employment … for other origins. Among women, the pattern of assimilation in earnings and employment is more positive than among their …, the pattern of negative assimilation is observed. -- immigrants ; assimilation ; earnings ; hours worked ; employment …

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International migration and the economics of language

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2014

This paper provides a review of the research on the ‘economics of language' as applied to international migration. Its primary focuses are on: (1) the effect of the language skills of an individual on the choice of destination among international (and internal) migrants, both in terms of the...

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