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Returns for entrepreneurs vs. employees: the effect of education and personal control on the relative performance of entrepreneurs vs. wage employees
van Praag, C. Mirjam; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; van … - 2009
spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277025
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The effects of school quality in the origin on the payoff to schooling for immigrants
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2010
quality on the immigrant selection process, rather than the quality of immigrants' schooling per se, that is the major driver …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272661
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Why are the returns to education higher for entrepreneurs than for employees?
van der Sluis, Justin; van Praag, C. Mirjam; van … - 2007
We compare the returns to education (RTE) for entrepreneurs and employees, based on 19 waves of the NLSY database. By using instrumental variable techniques (IV) and taking account of selectivity, we find that the RTE are significantly higher for entrepreneurs than for employees (18.3 percent...
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The Elusive Concept of Immigrant Quality: Evidence from 1970-1990
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2002
a good measure of the stock of immigrant human capital. This article presents a model of immigrant human capital … initial immigrant earnings and subsequent earnings growth. This result – which persists even after accounting for differences … are not controlled for. The immigrant human capital investment model presented here explores general principles that may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262373
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Immigrant wages in the Spanish labour market: does the origin of human capital matter?
Sanromá, Esteban; Ramos, Raúl; Simón, Hipólito - 2009
The aim of this paper is to analyse the role played by the different components of human capital in the wage determination of recent immigrants within the Spanish labour market. Using microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes 2007, the paper examines returns to human capital of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269038
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Intergenerational Progress of Mexican-Origin Workers in the U.S. Labor Market
Trejo, Stephen J. - 2001
Using unique Current Population Survey data from November 1979 and 1989, this paper compares the wage structure across generations of Mexican-origin men. I find that the sizable earnings advantage U.S.-born Mexican Americans enjoy over Mexican immigrants arises not just from intergenerational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262582
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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.; Miller, Paul W. - 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/10010269380
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ORU analyses of immigrant earnings in Australia, with international comparisons
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009
This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269488
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A note on measures of human capital for immigrants: examining the American Community Survey and New Immigrant Survey
Akee, Randall K. Q.; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2008
this analysis must be inferred based on the year of migration to the US. Using an immigrant-specific data set, the New … Immigrant Survey which contains explicit information on the human capital acquired in the US and abroad, we confirm these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270629
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Does the choice of reference levels of education matter in the ORU earnings equation?
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009
Matches or Worker Self-Assessment methods. The analyses are conducted for all male native-born and immigrant workers in the US …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271256