Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 2,096
Cover Image
Which Immigrants are Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial? Distinctions by Entry Visa
Hunt, Jennifer - 2010
Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147863
Cover Image
Immigration, Human Capital Formation and Endogenous Economic Growth
Ehrlich, Isaac - 2016
composition of migrants in major destination countries, including the US, has been rising over the last four decades. Moreover …, the population share of skilled migrants has been approaching or exceeding that of skilled natives. We offer theoretical … capital, population, income growth and distribution, and migration trends are endogenous. We derive new insights about the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001874
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155002
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777598
Cover Image
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. It draws on the theoretical arguments postulated in the labour economics literature and discusses their extension in the analysis of the causes and effects of immigrants'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108597
Cover Image
Educational and Skills Mismatches among Immigrants : The Impact of Host Language Proficiency
Budría, Santiago - 2020
mismatched jobs. Using the 2003-2016 waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA), the paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839060
Cover Image
Education, Health and Fertility of UK Immigrants : The Role of English Language Skills
Aoki, Yu - 2015
This paper aims to identify the causal effect of English language skills on education, health and fertility outcomes of immigrants in England and Wales. We construct an instrument for language skills using age at arrival in the United Kingdom, exploiting the fact that young children learn...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012015
Cover Image
The Impact of Immigrant Peers on Native Students' Academic Achievement in Countries Where Parents of Immigrants are Relatively Skilled
Seah, Kelvin - 2016
largest immigrant-receiving countries – United States, Australia, and Canada. Using a large cross-country dataset, variation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985699
Cover Image
Immigrants' Educational Mismatch and the Penalty of Over-Education
Kalfa, Eleni - 2014
This paper analyses immigrants' education-occupation mismatch as well as its impact on their wages in Spain. Using cross-sectional data from the National Immigrant Survey of Spain 2007, we estimate a probit model taking into account the possible problem of selection bias. We show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061950
Cover Image
The Effect of Immigrant Peers in Vocational Schools
Frattini, Tommaso - 2017
This paper provides new evidence on how the presence of immigrant peers in the classroom affects native student achievement. The analysis is based on longitudinal administrative data on two cohorts of vocational training students in Italy's largest region. Vocational training institutions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946599