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Immigrant earnings : a longitudinal analysis

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor); Lee, Yew Liang (contributor) - 2005

This paper uses the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia to analyze the determinants of the level and growth … in earnings of adult male immigrants in their first 3.5 years in Australia. The theoretical framework is based on the …. -- immigrants ; wages ; longitudinal survey ; inertia model ; Australia …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003115137

Immigrant selection systems and immigrant health

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - In: Contemporary economic policy : a journal of Western … 26 (2008) 4, pp. 555-578

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The "negative" assimilation of immigrants : a special case

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor); … - 2008

countries (i.e., the UK, Ireland, Canada and Australia/New Zealand) to the United States. Comparisons with the native born are …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726800

The economics of language : an introduction and overview

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor) - 2008

and native-born bilinguals. The empirical testing for the US, Canada, Australia, Israel and Bolivia is supportive of the …

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Occupational attainment and immigrant economic progress in Australia

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - In: The economic record : er 84 (2008), pp. 45-56

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Modeling Immigrants' Language Skills

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2007

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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Schooling, literacy, numeracy and labor market success

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

This paper uses data from the 1996 Australian Survey of Aspects of Literacy to examine the effects on labour market outcomes of literacy, numeracy and educational attainment. The survey includes a range of literacy and numeracy variables that are highly inter-correlated. A "general to specific"...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406733

Longitudinal analysis of immigrant occupational mobility : a test of the immigrant assimilation hypothesis

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

tests the hypotheses using data on adult males from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia. The theoretical … includes data on pre-immigration occupation, the "first" occupation in Australia (at 6 months) and the occupation after about 3 ….5 years in Australia. The hypotheses are supported by the empirical analysis. …

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Family matters : the role of the family in immigrants' destination language acquisition

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

This paper is concerned with the relationship among family members in the determinants of destination language proficiency among immigrants. A model of immigrant language proficiency is augmented to include dynamics among family members. It is tested using data on a sample of recent immigrants....

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Immigrant Selection Systems and Immigrant Health

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2008

Immigrants to Australia (panel I). Immigrant health is greater for immigrants who are younger, more educated, male, more …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014214042