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This paper is an analysis of the determinants of self-reported health status of immigrants, with a particular focus on … type of visa used to gain admission. The concept of "health capital" and an immigrant selection and adjustment model are …). Immigrant health is greater for immigrants who are younger, more educated, male, more proficient in English, and living outside …
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This paper is an analysis of the determinants of self-reported health status of immigrants, with a particular focus on … Immigrants to Australia (panel I). Immigrant health is greater for immigrants who are younger, more educated, male, more … proficient in English, and living outside an immigrant ethnic enclave. Immigrant health is poorest for refugees and best for …
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This paper is an analysis of the determinants of self-reported health status of immigrants, with a particular focus on … type of visa used to gain admission. The concept of health capitalʺ and an immigrant selection and adjustment model are …). Immigrant health is greater for immigrants who are younger, more educated, male, more proficient in English, and living outside …
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This paper analyzes the effect on earnings of the matching of English language skills to occupational requirements. It uses data from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) database and a Realized Matches procedure to quantify expected levels of English skills in each of over 500...
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One in nine people between the ages of 18 and 64 in the US, and every second foreign-born person in this age bracket, speaks Spanish at home. And whereas around 80 percent of adult immigrants in the US from non-English speaking countries other than Mexico are proficient in English, only about 50...
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This paper is concerned with the English language requirements (both level and importance) of occupations in the United States, as measured by the O*NET database. These scores are linked to microdata on employed adult (aged 25 to 64) males, both native born and foreign born, as reported in the...
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This paper examines the determinants of occupational attainment and the impact of occupation on earnings. Results for both the native born and foreign born are presented, and these provide insights as to the earnings penalties associated with the less-than-perfect international transferability...
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This paper explores the impact of English language proficiency and country of origin on the occupational choice of high-skilled immigrants in the U.S. using the 2000 Census. The findings reveal that high-skilled immigrants with limited proficiency in English, or whose mother tongue is...
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This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and benefits associated with this characteristic embodied in the...
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