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international transferability of immigrants' human capital, and undereducation to favorable selection in immigration. Comparisons …
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This paper examines the difference between the payoffs to schooling for immigrants and the native born in Canada, using … immigrants' human capital, and under-education to favourable selection in immigration. The results show that immigrants have a …
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This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 …
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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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Very little is known about gender wage disparities in Kosovo and, to date, nothing is known about how such wage disparities evolve over time, particularly during the first few years spent by young workers in the labor market. More generally, not much is known about gender wage gaps in early...
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earnings of immigrants as compared to native workers, in particular to test whether there is any systematic variation in the … labor market performance of immigrants across gender related to duration in the destination, schooling, age at immigration …
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This paper extends the analysis of the acquisition of destination language proficiency among immigrants by explicitly … duration of residence, the higher the level of education, and for immigrants not from Asia. Large positive correlations in the …
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immigrants. It presents a model of immigrant destination language acquisition based on economic incentives, exposure to the … destination language, and efficiency in second language acquisition. A unique data set, the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to …
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This study develops a theoretical framework for the study of the tendency for immigrant groups to be geographically concentrated. Testing the model for Australia shows that the extent of geographic concentration of immigrant groups is negatively related to age at migration, duration of residence...
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proficiency among immigrants. A model of immigrant language proficiency is augmented to include dynamics among family members. It … is tested using data on a sample of recent immigrants. Children are shown to have a negative effect on their mother …
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