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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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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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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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Where immigrants settle in the United States

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

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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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Citizenship in the United States : the roles of immigrant characteristics and country of origin

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor); … - 2008

This study develops and estimates a model of the naturalization process in the US. The model is based on both the characteristics of immigrants and features of their countries of origin. The empirical analysis is based on the 2000 US Census. Both the characteristics of immigrants and the...

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