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How Do Latin American Migrants in the U.S. Stand on Schooling Premium? What Does it Reveal About Education Quality in Their Home Countries?
Alonso-Soto, Daniel - 2017
Indicators for quality of schooling are not only relatively new in the world but also unavailable for a sizable share of the world's population. In their absence, some proxy measures have been devised. One simple but powerful idea has been to use the schooling premium for migrant workers in the...
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Does the Choice of Reference Levels of Education Matter in the Oru Earnings Equation?
Chiswick, Barry R. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155607
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Educational Attainment and Labor Market Performance : An Analysis of Immigrants in France
Akgüc, Mehtap - 2015
Using a recent survey of immigrants to France, we provide a detailed analysis of the educational attainment and labor … market performance of various sub-population groups in France. Our results indicate that immigrants to France are less … most groups of immigrants. Similarly, there is a significant wage gap between immigrant and native-born workers, but this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013025296
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Does Educational Mismatch Affect Emigration Behaviour?
Wanner, Philippe; Pecoraro, Marco; Tani, Massimiliano - 2023
selected relative to migrants emigrating to other countries. We also find that immigrants from a country outside the EU27/EFTA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014255969
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The Impact of Education on Unemployment Incidence and Re-Employment Success : Evidence from the U.S. Labour Market
Riddell, W. Craig - 2011
This study investigates the causal effects of education on individuals' transitions between employment and unemployment … 16 years of schooling. Evidence on the impact of formal schooling on unemployment incidence is mixed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128216
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Sheepskin Effects in Japan
Bauer, Thomas K.; Dross, Patrick J.; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2021
Using data for the 1990's, this paper examines the role of sheepskin effects in the returns to education for Japan. Our estimation results indicate that sheepskin effects explain about 50% of the total returns to schooling. We further find that sheepskin effect are only important for workers in...
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Earnings Penalty of Educational Mismatch : A Comparison of Alternative Methods of Assessing Over-Education
Wen, Le; Maani, Sholeh A. - 2023
In this paper we systematically evaluate the impact of using the alternative methods conventionally used in the international literature on the measured incidence of educational mismatch and its earnings effects. We use a rich Australian longitudinal data set for a controlled group of full-time...
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The Effect of Education on Geographic Mobility : Incidence, Timing, and Type of Migration
Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Kïrdar, Murat G.; Torun, Huzeyfe - 2021
We take advantage of a major compulsory school reform in Turkey to provide novel evidence on the causal effect of education on both the incidence and timing of internal migration. In addition, for the first time in literature, we provide causal effects of education on migration by reason for...
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The Effects of 9/11 on Attitudes Toward Immigration and the Moderating Role of Education
Schüller, Simone - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096449
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Migrant Educational Mismatch and the Labour Market
Piracha, Matloob - 2012
This paper reviews the literature on educational mismatch of immigrants in the labour market of destination countries … analysis of the causes and effects of immigrants' educational mismatch in the destination country. Relevant empirical … approaches have been presented which show that immigrants are in general more over-educated than natives and that the reasons for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108597