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Previous studies show that immigrants married to natives earn higher wages than immigrants married to other immigrants …
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countries and in Spain. It also examines the impact on wages of the legal status. The evidence shows that returns to host …
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countries and in Spain. It also examines the impact on wages of the legal status. The evidence shows that returns to host …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012884
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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distribution. We use this change in skill distribution of workers to analyze the effect of immigration on wages. Our model allows …, we find that, in line with much of the related empirical literature, immigration has a small effect on average real wages … different skill levels in all states, and that the effect of immigration on wages and wage inequality varies systematically with …
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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 … immigration, they find initial employment in occupations that require the opposite. These discrepancies are both larger and more …
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migrants, destination language skills display both a prerequisite for and outcome of successful integration. Investments into …
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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 in particular labor market...
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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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vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher … wages. However, in some countries where labor markets are characterized by employment growth, skill shortages and a good … the wages of various sub-sections of the labor force, in particular of minorities and disadvantaged groups. In this paper …
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