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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 …

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The critical period hypothesis for language learning: what the 2000 US census says

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

of an estimating equation based on 64 age-at-migration dichotomous variables. It shows that self-reported English … language speaking proficiency among immigrants declines more-or-less monotonically with age at migration, and this relationship …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267733

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

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

This paper analyzes the effect on earnings of the matching of English language skills to occupational requirements. It … are related to correct matching of an individual's language skills and that of his occupation. Moreover, the findings are … in matching immigrants to jobs that use their language skills most effectively …

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Modeling immigrants' language skills

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

migration and years spent in the US to their language skills. The immigrants' mother tongue is also shown to affect their …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268129

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

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

(interaction effect). There is, therefore, a strong economic incentive for the matching of worker's English skills and the … occupation's requirements, and this matching does tend to occur in the labor market. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268142

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 both the native born and foreign born are presented, and these provide insights as to the earnings penalties associated with the less-than-perfect international transferability...

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The negative assimilation of immigrants: a special case

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2008

Research on the economic or labor market assimilation of immigrants has to date focused on the degree of improvement in their economic status with duration in the destination. This pattern has been found for all the immigrant receiving countries, time periods and data sets that have been...

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Citizenship in the United States: the roles of immigrant characteristics and country of origin

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2008

status. The individual characteristics that have the most influence are educational attainment, age at migration, years since … migration, veteran of the US armed forces, living with family, and spouses' educational attainment. The country of origin …

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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...

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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/required education/undereducation (ORU) framework (Hartog, 2000) and a decomposition of the native-born/foreign-born differential in the payoff to schooling developed by Chiswick and Miller...

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