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Ethnicity and the Immigration of Highly Skilled Workers to the United States
Jasso, Guillermina - 2009
This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic components of ethnicity - country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion - among persons admitted to legal permanent residence in the United States in 2003 in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765217
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Occupational Choice of High Skilled Immigrants in the United States
Chiswick, Barry R.; Taengnoi, Sarinda - 2021
This paper explores the impact of English language proficiency and country of origin on the occupational choice of high-skilled immigrants in the U.S. using the 2000 Census. The findings reveal that high-skilled immigrants with limited proficiency in English, or whose mother tongue is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316866
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Earnings Gap, Cohort Effect and Economic Assimilation of Immigrants from Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in the United States
Lin, Carl - 2013
mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan (CHT) in the U.S. labor market. Since 1990, relative wages of CHT migrants have been … education. Rising U.S.-earned degrees by CHT migrants can account for this relatively successful economic assimilation. Cohort … analysis shows that the economic performance of CHT migrants admitted to the U.S. has been improving, even allowing for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086220
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How Do Immigrants from Taiwan Fare in the U.S. Labor Market?
Lin, Carl - 2014
This paper presents evidence that since 1980, relative to other immigrants, the earnings of Taiwanese immigrants have … which more than two-thirds can be solely attributed to education. We show that more recently arrival cohorts of Taiwanese …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061925
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Openness and Technological Innovation in East Asia : Have They Increased the Demand for Skills?
Almeida, Rita - 2009
This paper asks whether the increased openness and technological innovation in East Asia have contributed to an increased demand for skills in the region. We explore a unique firm level data set across eight countries. Our results strongly support the idea that greater openness and technology...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155474
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Skill Based Immigrant Selection and Labor Market Outcomes by Visa Category
Aydemir, Abdurrahman - 2012
Attracting skilled immigrants is emerging as an important policy goal for immigrant receiving countries. This article first discusses the economic rationale for immigrant selection. Selection mechanisms of receiving countries are reviewed in the context of deteriorating labor market outcomes for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108231
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Give Me Your Wired and Your Highly Skilled : Measuring the Impact of Immigration Policy on Employers and Shareholders
Lin, Carl - 2013
employers and shareholders, particularly in those industries with high needs for skilled immigrants. The American …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092819
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Will Skill-Based Immigration Policies Lead to Lower Remittances? An Analysis of the Relations between Education, Sponsorship, and Remittances
Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - 2018
on developing countries remains unclear. Some researchers have argued that migrants who are more educated tend to bring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926721
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Educational Mismatch : Are High-Skilled Immigrants Really Working at High-Skilled Jobs and the Price They Pay If They Aren't?
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2009
This paper examines the incidence of the mismatch of the educational attainment and the occupation of employment, and the impact of this mismatch on the earnings, of high-skilled adult male immigrants in the US labor market. Analyses for high-skilled adult male native-born workers are also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158064
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The Effect of Increasing Immigration Enforcement on the Labor Supply of High-Skilled Citizen Women
East, Chloe - 2019
on labor supply from the American Community Survey over 2005-2012, we implement a difference-in-difference approach with … time spent on household production tasks among mothers in the American Time Use Survey, 2) we confirm that there is an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894543