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From Engineer to Taxi Driver? Language Proficiency and the Occupational Skills of Immigrants
Imai, Susumu; Stacey, Derek; Warman, Casey - Economics Discipline Group, Business School - 2014
We examine the ability of male immigrants to transfer the occupational human capital they acquired prior to immigration … skill requirements of pre- and post-immigration occupations. We find that male immigrants to Canada were employed in source … country occupations that required high levels of cognitive skills, but relied less intently on manual skills. Following …
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Labour Market Matters - December 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
growth of computerization in the workplace increasing the importance of non-routine cognitive skills. In a study entitled â … immigration are less likely (such as Asia) may be tied to the lack of improvements in immigrant wage outcomes despite the …
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Technological Change and Declining Immigrant Outcomes, Implications for Income Inequality in Canada
Warman, Casey; Worswick, Christopher - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
leading to a rising return to non-routine cognitive skills and a greater wage return to university education. Controlling for …
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Immigrant Selection Systems and Occupational Outcomes of International Medical Graduates in Canada and the United States
McDonald, James Ted; Warman, Casey; Worswick, Christopher - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2012
We analyze the process of immigrant selection and occupational outcomes of International Medical Graduates (IMGs) in the US and Canada. The IMG relicensing model of Kugler and Sauer (2005) is extended to incorporate two different approaches to immigrant selection: employer nomination systems and...
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Marché du travail en revue - Décembre 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
Le fait de ne parler ni anglais ni français constitue souvent un obstacle important pour un emploi et un revenu rémunérateurs au Canada et, selon une étude intitulée « Effets de la proximité linguistique sur l’assimilation professionnelle des immigrants hommes » (Rapport de...
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Doctors Without Borders: The Returns to an Occupational License for Soviet Immigrant Physicians in Israel
Kugler, Adriana D.; Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Re-licensing requirements for professionals that move across borders are widespread. In this paper, we measure the returns to an occupational license using novel data on Soviet trained physicians that immigrated to Israel. An immigrant re-training assignment rule used by the Israel Ministry of...
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Doctors without Borders: The Returns to an Occupational License for Soviet Immigrant Physicians in Israel
Kugler, Adriana D.; Sauer, Robert M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
Re-licensing requirements for professionals that move across borders are widespread. In this Paper, we measure the returns to an occupational license using novel data on Soviet trained physicians that immigrated to Israel. An immigrant re-training assignment rule used by the Israel Ministry of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136637
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Atypische Beschaeftigungsverhaeltnisse – Einleitung zum Schwerpunktheft (Atypical employment - Introduction)
Keller, Berndt; Nienhueser, Werner - In: Industrielle Beziehungen - Zeitschrift fuer Arbeit, … 21 (2014) 1, pp. 5-14
Zu den atypischen Beschaeftigungsverhaeltnissen zaehlen wir im Folgenden (im Sinne einer Nominaldefinition) Teilzeit, geringfuegige Beschaeftigung/Mini- und Midijobs, befristete Beschaeftigung, Leiharbeit, Werkvertraege sowie Solo-Selbststaendigkeit. Die dieses Schwerpunktheftes spiegeln sowohl...
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Immigrant economic assimilation: Evidence from UK longitudinal data between 1978 and 2006
Lemos, Sara - In: Labour Economics 24 (2013) C, pp. 339-353
Using the underexplored, sizeable and long Lifetime Labour Market Database (LLMDB) we estimate the immigrant–native earnings gap at entry and over time for the UK between 1978 and 2006. That is, we attempt to separately estimate cohort and assimilation effects. We also estimate the associated...
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Effects of a High-skilled Immigration Policy and Immigrant Occupational Attainment on Domestic Wages Effects
Maani, Sholeh; Chen, Y. - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 15 (2012) 2, pp. 101-121
The recent international literature on immigration wage effects has shown contrasting results. Past studies have … impact to negative impacts. This paper, by contrast, explores the outcomes of highly skilled immigration on the wages of … encourages skilled immigration and has exceptionally accurate immigrant data. Our analysis makes use of unit record data and …
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