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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262570
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The Wealth and Asset Holdings of U.S.- Born and Foreign-Born Households: Evidence from SIPP Data
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hildebrand, Vincent A. - 2003
SIPP data are used to analyze the wealth of the U.S. foreign-born population. We find that the median wealth level of U.S.-born couples is 2.3 times the median of foreign-born couples, while the median wealth level of U.S.-born singles is three times that of foreign-born singles. Further, there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274276
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Gender, Comparative Advantage and Labor Market Activity in Immigrant Families
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Crossley, Thomas F. - 2001
financing post-migration human capital investment in which the partner with labor market comparative advantage engages in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262499
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Immigration and status exchange in Australia and the United States
Choi, Kate H.; Tienda, Marta; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; … - 2011
The claim that marriage is a venue for status exchange of achieved traits, like education, and ascribed attributes, notably race and ethnic membership, has regained traction in the social stratification literature. Most studies that consider status exchanges ignore birthplace as a social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285983
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Emigration and the age profile of retirement among immigrants
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Stillman, Steven - 2008
for the rate of return migration are then estimated using unique data on emigration rates matched to individual-level data …This paper analyzes the relationship between immigrants' retirement status and the prevalence of return migration from … conditions the probability of return migration is maximized at retirement. Reduced-form models of retirement status which control …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269003
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Neighborhood diversity and the appreciation of native- and immigrant-owned homes
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Sinning, Mathias G. - 2009
This paper examines the effect of neighborhood diversity on the nativity gap in home-value appreciation in Australia. Specifically, immigrant homeowners experienced a 41.7 percent increase in median home values between 2001 and 2006, while the median value of housing owned by the native-born...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271300
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Migrant youths' educational achievement: The role of institutions
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Sinning, Mathias; Stillman, Steven - 2011
We use 2009 Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) data to link institutional arrangements in OECD countries to the disparity in reading, math, and science test scores for migrant and native-born students. We find that achievement gaps are larger for those migrant youths who arrive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286871
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Immigration and Status Exchange in Australia and the United States
Choi, Kate H.; Tienda, Marta; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The claim that marriage is a venue for status exchange of achieved traits, like education, and ascribed attributes, notably race and ethnic membership, has regained traction in the social stratification literature. Most studies that consider status exchanges ignore birthplace as a social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216750
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A Comparative Analysis of the Nativity Wealth Gap
Bauer, Thomas K.; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hildebrand, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper investigates the source of the gap in the relative wealth position of immigrant households residing in Australia, Germany and the United States. Our results indicate that in Germany and the United States wealth differentials are largely the result of disparity in the educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703426
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Neighborhood Diversity and the Appreciation of Native- and Immigrant-Owned Homes
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Sinning, Mathias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper examines the effect of neighborhood diversity on the nativity gap in home-value appreciation in Australia. Specifically, immigrant homeowners experienced a 41.7 percent increase in median home values between 2001 and 2006, while the median value of housing owned by the native-born...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008517985