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in earnings of adult male immigrants in their first 3.5 years in Australia. The theoretical framework is based on the …This paper uses the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia to analyze the determinants of the level and growth … cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses generate similar findings. The level and relative growth of earnings are higher …
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The Roy-Borjas model predicts that international migrants are less educated than nonmigrants because the returns to education are generally higher in developing (migrant-sending) than in developed (migrant-receiving) countries. However, empirical evidence often shows the opposite. Using the case...
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between changes in the share of immigrants by sub-labour markets (categorized by skill types and geographic areas) and changes … accounting for biases due to native mobility, endogenous location of immigrants and labour demand shifts, the estimated effects …
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We use the panel data from the Building a New Life in Australia survey to examine the relationships between proficiency in English and labour market outcomes among humanitarian migrants. Having better general or speaking skills in English is certainly associated with a higher propensity for...
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in 1992, and appears to have increased over time. High-school leaders are more likely to occupy managerial occupations as … adults, and leadership skills command a higher wage premium within managerial occupations than other jobs. We find evidence …
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This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic …) Highly skilled immigrants are mostly male; they are not immune from lapsing into illegality; they have a shorter visa process … describe earnings in the country of last residence, even when requested to use the country's currency - suggests that highly …
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The major event of the 9/11 terror attacks is likely to have induced an increase in anti-immigrant and anti-foreigner sentiments, not only among US residents but also beyond US borders. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and exploiting exogenous variation in interview...
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high school graduates but not for college graduates, and conclude that high levels of schooling reveal true productivity …
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We test if migration leads to increased wages. We take the example of Polish migrants to the United Kingdom and focus on the mobility of well educated Poles. We offer insights into absolute and relative change in wages of the migrants, utilizing the data from the UK and Polish labor force...
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direct costs that these immigrants face in acquiring a medical license. Licensing thus leads to lower average quality of … service. However, the positive earnings effect of entry restrictions far outweighs the lower practitioner quality earnings …
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