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quality on the immigrant selection process, rather than the quality of immigrants' schooling per se, that is the major driver …
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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 …
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their economic status with duration in the destination. This pattern has been found for all the immigrant receiving … also presented to test whether the findings are sensitive to immigrant cohort quality effects. Even after controlling for …
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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...
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This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation …
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Matches or Worker Self-Assessment methods. The analyses are conducted for all male native-born and immigrant workers in the US …
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further the immigrant's mother tongue is from English. The linguistic distance of the immigrants' mother tongue from the …-arrival earnings growth and the initial earnings disadvantage documented in most studies of immigrant earnings. …
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) probit analyses are employed. Immigrant English language skills are greater the younger the age at migration, the longer the …
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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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language skills in immigrant selection. A difference between differences approach is used to isolate the impacts of these … policy changes, and thus enable an assessment of what immigrant selection policy can do in this area. It is found that visa … category, educational attainment and age at migration impact on immigrant?s language skills. The increased English Proficiency …
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