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English Proficiency and Test Scores of Immigrant Children in the US

Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa - 2017

Immigrant children in the US tend to perform worse in reading, mathematics, and science compared to native children. This paper explores how much of such differences in achievement can be accounted for by a lack of English proficiency. To identify the causal effect of English proficiency on...

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Intergenerational Persistence in Income and Social Class : The Impact of Within-Group Inequality

Blanden, Jo - 2011

Family income is found to be more closely related to sons' earnings for a cohort born in 1970 compared to one born in … which relates mobility in measured family income/earnings to mobility in social class. Building on this framework we then … the intergenerational persistence of the permanent component of income that is unrelated to social class. We reject the …

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An Age Perspective on Economic Well-Being and Social Protection in Nine OECD Countries

Dang, Thai-Thanh; Immervoll, Herwig; Mantovani, Daniela; … - 2021

public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income …-data and microsimulation models to illustrate the influence of market income patterns, household structures and social … protection measures on the income distribution among and between different age groups. We use information from the late 1990s to …

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The Economic Situation of First- and Second-Generation Immigrants in France, Germany, and the UK

Algan, Yann - 2009

A central concern about immigration is the integration into the labour market, not only of the first generation, but also of subsequent generations. Little comparative work exists for Europe's largest economies. France, Germany and the UK have all become, perhaps unwittingly, countries with...

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Immigration, Human Capital Formation and Endogenous Economic Growth

Ehrlich, Isaac - 2016

capital, population, income growth and distribution, and migration trends are endogenous. We derive new insights about the … impact of migration on long-term income growth and distribution, and the net benefits to natives in both destination and …

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Disability and Work : The Role of Health Shocks and Childhood Circumstances

van der Klaauw, Bas; Lindeboom, Maarten; Llena Nozal, Ana - 2021

This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data from the British National Child Development Study...

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Immigrant Enclaves and Crime

Machin, Stephen J. - 2011

There is conflicting evidence on the consequences of immigrant neighbourhood segregation for individual outcomes, with various studies finding positive, negative or insubstantial effects. In this paper, we document the evolution of immigrant segregation in England over the last 40 years. We show...

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English Deficiency and the Native-Immigrant Wage Gap

Miranda, Alfonso - 2012

We focus on the effect of English deficiency on the native-immigrant wage gap for male employees in the UK using the first wave of the UK Household Longitudinal Survey. We show that the wage gap is robust to controls for age, region of residence, educational attainment and ethnicity. However,...

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Immigration, Obesity and Labor Market Outcomes in the UK

Averett, Susan L. - 2014

We estimate the dual effects of immigration and obesity on labor market outcomes in the UK. There is only one other paper that has estimated these dual effects on a sample of immigrants to the US. We use the British Household Panel Survey, which contains information on height and weight for 2004...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066244

The Causal Effect of Deficiency at English on Female Immigrants' Labor Market Outcomes in the UK

Miranda, Alfonso - 2013

We investigate the extent to which deficiency at English as measured by English as Additional Language (EAL), contribute to the immigrant-native wage gap for female employees in the UK, controlling for covariates. To deal with the endogeneity of EAL and a substantial problem of self-selection...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071281

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