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The Linguistic and Economic Adjustment of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in the United States, 2000 : A Preliminary Report

Chiswick, Barry R.; Wenz, Michael - 2004

This paper is an analysis of the English-language proficiency and labor market earnings of Soviet Jewish immigrants to … English proficiency and earnings than other immigrants, other variables being the same. However, they have a steeper … improvement in both proficiency and earnings with duration in the United States and the differences from the other European …

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The linguistic and economic adjustment of Soviet Jewish immigrants in the United States, 1980 to 2000

Chiswick, Barry R.; Wenz, Michael - 2005

This paper is an analysis of the English-language proficiency and labor market earnings of adult male Soviet Jewish … of English proficiency and earnings than other immigrants, other variables being the same. However, they have a steeper … improvement in both proficiency and earnings with duration in the United States and the differences from the other European …

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Happiness and the persistence of income shocks

Bayer, Christian; Juessen, Falko - 2012

We reassess the empirical effect of income and employment on self-reported well-being. Our analysis makes use of a novel two-step estimation procedure that allows applying instrumental variable regressions with ordinal observable data. As suggested by the theory of incomplete markets, we...

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