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Matching Language Proficiency to Occupation : The Effect on Immigrants' Earnings

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2007

This paper analyzes the effect on earnings of the matching of English language skills to occupational requirements. It uses data from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) database and a quot;Realized Matchesquot; procedure to quantify expected levels of English skills in each of over 500...

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Does Bilingualism Among the Native Born Pay?

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2016

This paper uses the pooled data from the 2005-2009 American Community Survey to analyze the economic benefits of bilingualism to adult men born in the United States. Bilingualism among the native born is defined as speaking a language at home other than or in addition to English. Native born...

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The International Transferability of Immigrants' Human Capital Skills

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2007

This paper uses the approach in the under/over education literature to analyze the extent of matching of educational level to occupational attainment among adult native born and foreign born men in the U.S., using the 2000 Census. Overeducation is found to be more common among recent labor...

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Occupational Language Requirements and the Value of English in the U.S. Labor Market

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2007

This paper is concerned with the English language requirements (both level and importance) of occupations in the United States, as measured by the O*NET database. These scores are linked to microdata on employed adult (aged 25 to 64) males, both native born and foreign born, as reported in the...

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How Immigrants Fare Across the Earnings Distribution : International Analyses

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2006

low deciles, while the Australian minimum (administered) wage system appears to compress earnings across the distribution …

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Earnings and Occupational Attainment : Immigrants and the Native Born

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2010

This paper examines the determinants of occupational attainment and the impact of occupation on earnings. Results for both the native born and foreign born are presented, and these provide insights as to the earnings penalties associated with the less-than-perfect international transferability...

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Gender Discrimination in the Australian Graduate Labour Market

Li, Ian - 2012

is applied. A smaller gender wage gap is found for university graduates than that reported for all workers in earlier … studies. It is shown, however, that the gender wage gap widens with the age at graduation. This pattern is argued to reflect … graduates. Overeducation, while associated with substantial penalties, is not a substantial contributor to the gender wage gap …

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An Explanation for the Lower Payoff to Schooling for Immigrants in the Canadian Labour Market

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2009

This paper examines the difference between the payoffs to schooling for immigrants and the native born in Canada, using 2001 Census data. Analyses are presented for males and females. Comparisons are offered with findings for the US. The paper uses the Overeducation/Required...

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ORU Analyses of Immigrant Earnings in Australia, with International Comparisons

Chiswick, Barry R. - 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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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...

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