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International migration and the economics of language

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

, Canada, Australia, the UK, Germany, Israel and Spain. …

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The occupations of free women and substitution with enslaved workers in the antebellum United States

Chiswick, Barry R.; Robinson, RaeAnn H. - 2022

This paper analyzes the occupational status and distribution of free women in the antebellum United States. It considers both their reported and unreported (imputed) occupations, using the 1/100 IPUMS files from the 1860 Census of Population. After developing and testing the model based on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170306

Women at work in the United States since 1860: an analysis of unreported family workers

Chiswick, Barry R.; Robinson, RaeAnn H. - 2021

Estimated labor force participation rates among free women in the pre-Civil War period were exceedingly low. This is due, in part, to cultural or societal expectations of the role of women and the lack of thorough enumeration by Census takers. This paper develops an augmented labor force...

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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 probability, unemployment probability, and hours worked per week). Using the 2006 Australian Census of Population and Housing the analyses are performed separately by gender, and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009740293

Women at work in the pre-Civil War United States: an analysis of unreported family workers

Chiswick, Barry R.; Robinson, RaeAnn H. - 2020

Rates of labor force participation in the US in the second half of the nineteenth century among free women were exceedingly (and implausibly) low, about 11 percent. This is due, in part, to social perceptions of working women, cultural and societal expectations of female's role, and lack of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242930

The economics of language : an introduction and overview

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor) - 2008

and native-born bilinguals. The empirical testing for the US, Canada, Australia, Israel and Bolivia is supportive of the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003729415

ORU analyses of immigrant earnings in Australia, with international comparisons

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

are offered with findings from analyses for the US and Canada to enable assessment of the relative impacts of favorable …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003898600

The production of PhDs in the United States and Canada

Chiswick, Barry R.; Larsen, Nicholas; Pieper, Paul - 2010

This paper is concerned with the production of PhDs in the United States and Canada in the post-WW II period, overall … have no effect for U.S. females or in Canada. Government expenditures on research and development enhanced PhD production … production in the U.S., but not in Canada. The cyclical indicator, the adult male unemployment rate, has a weak positive effect …

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International migration and the integration of labor markets

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor); … - 2002

This paper is concerned with the determinants and consequences of intercontinental migration over the past four centuries. It begins with a review of the history of primarily trans-Atlantic migration to the New World during the period of Colonial settlement. The contract and coerced migration...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001701399

An explanation for the lower payoff to schooling for immigrants in the Canadian labour market

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

This paper examines the difference between the payoffs to schooling for immigrants and the native born in Canada, using … Canada than in the US, where it predominates among the least educated. -- Immigrants ; skill ; schooling ; earnings ; rates … of return ; Canada …

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