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This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study labor market assimilation of self …
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A history of the New Zealand immigration experience and policy is reviewed in this paper. Data from the 1981 and 1996 …
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data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased in Sweden in the 1990?s …
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The labor market "quality" of immigrants is a subject of debate among immigration researchers, and a major public … in the immigration flows from different countries, sampling error, and the effects of emigration – is fundamentally …
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This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to analyze the labor market experience of high-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high-skilled occupations than natives, but the gap between the two...
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The existing literature on immigrant assimilation has highlighted the imperfect portability of human capital acquired … assimilation upon arrival in the new country, as well as the wide initial earnings gap. Recent studies (Chiswick and Miller, 2007 … advances, a process of assimilation does exist, except for Asians and, in some circumstances, those from Sub-Saharan Africa …
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This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...
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Borjas thesis that self-selection and not immigration policy sorts immigrants between Canada and the U.S. …
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The preponderance of minimal second language acquisition by immigrants worldwide is striking. This paper proposes a theoretical model, which analyzes the underlying forces that contribute to this outcome of minimal secondary language acquisition by immigrants in such diverse immigrant-receiving...
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immigration from new-EU-12 countries. Second, the lack of employment assimilation in terms of job quality for workers from the new …The 2004 and 2007 EU enlargement has led to a significant increase in the immigration flow to Spain. Individuals from …
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