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Returns to Local and Foreign Language Skills – Causal Evidence from Spain
Isphording, Ingo - 2013
This study examines the returns to foreign and local language skills of immigrants in the Spanish labor market. Different sources of endogeneity are addressed by deriving a set of novel instruments for language proficiency through a measure of linguistic dissimilarity. Using cross-sectional data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290798
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Returns to Local and Foreign Language Skills – Causal Evidence from Spain
Isphording, Ingo - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2013
This study examines the returns to foreign and local language skills of immigrants in the Spanish labor market. Different sources of endogeneity are addressed by deriving a set of novel instruments for language proficiency through a measure of linguistic dissimilarity. Using cross-sectional data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010617560
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The myth of the misinformed migrant? Survey insights from Nigeria's irregular migration epicenter
Beber, Bernd; Scacco, Alexandra - 2022
continue to make significant investments in information campaigns designed to discourage irregular African migration. Despite … extent are potential migrants actually misinformed about the migration journey and destination countries? We bring … representative survey data collected in Benin City, Nigeria - a center of irregular migration - to bear on this question. Three key …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013412993
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Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation – An Analysis for Germany
Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K. - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269990
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External Effects of Education: Human Capital Spillovers in Regions and Firms
Bauer, Thomas K.; Vorell, Matthias - 2010
Using a matched employer-employee panel dataset for Germany, we analyze the external effects of education on individual wages. Following the basic framework of Moretti (2004), we allow spillover effects to occur both within a specific firm and a specific region rather than analyzing spillover...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273575
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Disadvantages of Linguistic Origin – Evidence from Immigrant Literacy Scores
Isphording, Ingo - 2013
migration, confirming the linguistic Critical Period hypothesis. Assimilation in literacy scores is moderate and does not offset … Adoleszenz vorhersagt. Der steigende Einfluss der linguistischen Distanz mit steigendem Alter bei Migration unterstützt diese …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290801
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Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation – An Analysis for Germany
Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K. - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008518188
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Disadvantages of Linguistic Origin – Evidence from Immigrant Literacy Scores
Isphording, Ingo - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2013
migration, confirming the linguistic Critical Period hypothesis. Assimilation in literacy scores is moderate and does not offset …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010617558
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External Eff ects of Education: Human Capital Spillovers in Regions and Firms
Bauer, Thomas K.; Vorell, Matthias - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2010
Using a matched employer-employee panel dataset for Germany, we analyze the external eff ects of education on individual wages. Following the basic framework of Moretti (2004), we allow spillover eff ects to occur both within a specifi c fi rm and a specifi c region rather than analyzing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008641782
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The dynamics of earnings in Germany: Evidence from social security records
Bönke, Timm; Giesecke, Matthias; Lüthen, Holger - 2015
This paper uncovers ongoing trends in idiosyncratic earnings volatility across generations by decomposing residual earnings auto-covariances into a permanent and a transitory component. We employ data on complete earnings life cycles for prime age men born 1935 through 1974 that covers earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372081