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Matching language proficiency to occupation: the effect on immigrants' earnings

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2007

are related to correct matching of an individual's language skills and that of his occupation. Moreover, the findings are …

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Occupational language requirements and the value of English in the US labor market

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2007

native born and foreign born, as reported in the 2000 Census, one percent sample. Working in an occupation that requires … required for the occupation, and when those with high levels of proficiency work in jobs requiring English language skills … occupation's requirements, and this matching does tend to occur in the labor market. …

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The international transferability of immigrants' human capital skills

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2007

This paper uses the approach in the under/over education literature to analyze the extent of matching of educational level to occupational attainment among adult native born and foreign born men in the U.S., using the 2000 Census. Overeducation is found to be more common among recent labor...

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Earnings and occupational attainment: immigrants and the native born

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2007

This paper examines the determinants of occupational attainment and the impact of occupation on earnings. Results for … earnings gains associated with years of schooling derives from inter-occupational mobility. When occupation is held constant …

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Economic, neurobiological and behavioral perspectives on building America's future workforce

Knudsen, Eric I.; Heckman, James Joseph; Cameron, Judy L.; … - 2006

A growing proportion of the U.S. workforce will have been raised in disadvantaged environments that are associated with relatively high proportions of individuals with diminished cognitive and social skills. A cross-disciplinary examination of research in economics, developmental psychology, and...

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Wages, Sorting on Skill, and the Racial Composition of Jobs

Macpherson, David A.; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2003

Wages for black and white workers are substantially lower in occupations with a high density of black employees, following standard controls. Such correlations can exist absent discrimination or as a result of discrimination. In wage level equations, the magnitude of the correlation falls...

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Overeducation and Skill Endowments The Role of School Achievement and Vocational Training Quality

Büchel, Felix; Pollmann-Schult, Matthias - 2001

Thurow?s job-competition model implies that overeducation is contingent upon the differing skill endowments of employees. As yet, only rudimentary evidence has been furnished to confirm this relationship. In the present paper, we test the theory in a more sophisticated manner, by means of a more...

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The sexual orientation wage gap: the role of occupational sorting, human capital, and discrimination

Antecol, Heather; Jong, Anneke; Steinberger, Michael D. - 2007

Using data from the 2000 U.S. Census, we document and explore three alternative explanations for the sexual orientation wage gap: occupational sorting, human capital differences, and discrimination. We find lesbian women earn more than their heterosexual counterparts irrespective of marital...

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How Does Imperfect Competition in the Labor Market Affect Unemployment Policies?

Wauthy, Xavier; Zenou, Yves - 2001

We consider a continuum of workers ranked according to their abilities to acquire education and two firms with different technologies that imperfectly compete in wages to attract these workers. Once employed, each worker bears an education cost proportional to his/her initial ability, this cost...

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Immigration Policy and the Skills of Immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States

Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2001

Census data for 1990/91 indicate that Australian and Canadian immigrants have higher levels of English fluency, education, and income (relative to natives) than do U.S. immigrants. This skill deficit for U.S. immigrants arises primarily because the United States receives a much larger share of...

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