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This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and benefits associated with this characteristic embodied in the...
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differences, however, vary greatly across countries with migrants in Germany and Portugal faring best relative to natives, and …The paper uses the 1994-2000 waves of the European Community Household Panel to conduct a systematic analysis of the … those in Sweden, Denmark, Luxembourg or Spain the worst, particularly among non-EU born migrants. Gender differences are …
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This paper explores the theoretical issues and the empirical literature regarding the selectivity of migrants. Although … theoretical analysis indicates a tendency toward the favorable self-selection (supply) of migrants for labor market success. The … be expected to be less intense for non-economic migrants, such as refugees, tied movers and ideological migrants, and for …
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This report analyzes the employment and unemployment experiences of adult foreign-born men, both among themselves and … dependent variables are analyzed, weeks worked (employment) in 1989, unemployment status in the reference week in 1990, and a … employment and unemployment of schooling, labor market experience, marital status and the agricultural sector, in addition to …
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for immigrants with higher levels of skill and who are economic/skills tested migrants, as distinct from family based and … refugee migrants. The analysis indicates that immigrant economic assimilation does occur and that in these data the cross …
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education on labour force participation and on unemployment can be attributed to literacy and numeracy (the indirect effect) and … literacy and numeracy on participation or unemployment. The direct and total effects of experience are the same. The findings …
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This paper considers the labor market assimilation of immigrants in terms of earnings and employment (employment … probability, unemployment probability, and hours worked per week). Using the 2006 Australian Census of Population and Housing the … for other origins. Among women, the pattern of assimilation in earnings and employment is more positive than among their …
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This paper considers the labor market assimilation of immigrants in terms of earnings and employment (employment … probability, unemployment probability, and hours worked per week). Using the 2006 Australian Census of Population and Housing the … for other origins. Among women, the pattern of assimilation in earnings and employment is more positive than among their …
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This paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of the largely ignored issue of the determinants of the educational attainment of adults by immigrant generation. Using Current Population Survey (CPS) data, differences in educational attainment are analyzed by immigrant generation...
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This paper extends the analysis of the acquisition of destination language proficiency among immigrants by explicitly incorporating dynamics among family members – mother, father and children. Single equation, bivariate, and four-state (multivariate) probit analyses are employed. Immigrant...
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