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Immigrant earnings: a longitudinal analysis

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2005

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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Schooling, Literacy, Numeracy and Labor Market Success

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

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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Negative and Positive Assimilation By Prices and By Quantities

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2013

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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Negative and Positive Assimilation By Prices and By Quantities

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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Parents and Children Talk : The Family Dynamics of English Language Proficiency

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2004

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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Where Immigrants Settle in the United States

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2004

This paper is concerned with the location of immigrants in the United States, as reported in the 1990 Census. Where they settle has implications for the economic, social and political impact of immigrants. Immigrants are highly geographically concentrated. Compared to the native born they are...

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Linguistic Distance : A Quantitative Measure of the Distance Between English and Other Languages

Miller, Paul W.; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2004

This paper develops a scalar or quantitative measure of the ?distance? between English and a myriad of other (non-native American) languages. This measure is based on the difficulty Americans have learning other languages. The linguistic distance measure is then used in an analysis of the...

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Language Skills and Immigrant Adjustment : What Immigration Policy Can Do!

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2004

This study provides an account of the dynamics of the dominant language adjustment process among immigrants in Australia using the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia, which comprises two cohorts of immigrants that arrived in Australia around five years apart. There are two special...

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Immigrants' Language Skills: The Australian Experience in a Longitudinal Survey

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

This paper is concerned with the determinants of English language proficiency (speaking, reading and writing) among immigrants. It presents a model of immigrant destination language acquisition based on economic incentives, exposure to the destination language, and efficiency in second language...

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Immigrants' Language Skills and Visa Category

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

This paper is concerned with the determinants of English language proficiency among immigrants in a longitudinal survey for Australia. It focuses on both visa category and variables derived from an economic model of the determinants of destination language proficiency among immigrants. Skills...

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