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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 using information from the O*NET and a unique dataset that includes both the last source country occupation and the first four years of occupations in Canada. We first augment...
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Migration and Regional Sorting of Skills
Tano, Sofia - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2014
This thesis consists of an introductory part and four papers. <p> Paper [I] estimates jointly the choice of whether to enroll in education and the choice of location among young people. Being a particularly mobile group, the location choices of young individuals shape much of the regional...</p>
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Language and Labor Market Success
Isphording, Ingo E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
migrants, destination language skills display both a prerequisite for and outcome of successful integration. Investments into …
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Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation: An Analysis for Germany
Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K.; Kramer, Anica - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
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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Entry into working life: Spatial mobility and the job match quality of higher-educated graduates
Venhorst V.; Cörvers F. - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2015
-selection of migrants with an IV approach, this effect is no longer significant. We also find that, for our alternative job …
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Entry into working life: Spatial mobility and the job match quality of higher-educated graduates
Venhorst V.; Cörvers F. - Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), … - 2015
-selection of migrants with an IV approach, this effect is no longer significant. We also find that, for our alternative job …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011266661
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Are Immigrants Favorably Self-Selected? An Economic Analysis
Chiswick, Barry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
This paper explores the theoretical issues and the empirical literature regarding the selectivity of migrants. Although … theoretical analysis indicates a tendency toward the favorable self-selection (supply) of migrants for labor market success. The … be expected to be less intense for non-economic migrants, such as refugees, tied movers and ideological migrants, and for …
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A "Glass-Ceiling" Effect for Immigrants in the Italian Labour Market?
Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Lucifora, Claudio; Pagani, Laura - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the (imperfect) international transferability of human capital. Data are drawn from the 2009 Italian Labour Force Survey (LFS). We show that returns to human capital are considerably lower...
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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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Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel
Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary 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...
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