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Educational mismatch : are high-skilled immigrants really working at high-skilled jobs and the price they pay if they aren't?
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009
This paper examines the incidence of the mismatch of the educational attainment and the occupation of employment, and the impact of this mismatch on the earnings, of high-skilled adult male immigrants in the US labor market. Analyses for high-skilled adult male native-born workers are also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872711
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Educational Mismatch : Are High-Skilled Immigrants Really Working at High-Skilled Jobs and the Price They Pay If They Aren't?
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2009
This paper examines the incidence of the mismatch of the educational attainment and the occupation of employment, and the impact of this mismatch on the earnings, of high-skilled adult male immigrants in the US labor market. Analyses for high-skilled adult male native-born workers are also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158064
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Educational mismatch: are high-skilled immigrants really working at high-skilled jobs and the price they pay if they aren't?
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009
This paper examines the incidence of the mismatch of the educational attainment and the occupation of employment, and the impact of this mismatch on the earnings, of high-skilled adult male immigrants in the US labor market. Analyses for high-skilled adult male native-born workers are also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269380
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High Skilled Immigration in the International Arena
Chiswick, Barry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This conceptual paper, prepared for a United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Migration and Development, is concerned … historical background of high-skilled international migration, the paper examines the reasons for the recent growth in demand for … high-skilled workers in the technologically advanced nations. If then examines the impact of high-skilled migration on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822208
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High skilled immigration in the international arena
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2005
This conceptual paper, prepared for a United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Migration and Development, is concerned … historical background of high-skilled international migration, the paper examines the reasons for the recent growth in demand for … high-skilled workers in the technologically advanced nations. If then examines the impact of high-skilled migration on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267688
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The "Negative" Assimilation of Immigrants: A Special Case
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Research on the economic or labor market assimilation of immigrants has to date focused on the degree of improvement in their economic status with duration in the destination. This pattern has been found for all the immigrant receiving countries, time periods and data sets that have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822231
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Religiosity and Migration: Travel into One's Self versus Travel across Cultures
Aleksynska, Mariya; Chiswick, Barry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper examines differences in religious behaviors of the native born and immigrants in Europe, measured as self-reported religiosity, frequency of praying, and frequency of church attendance. Using the European Social Survey, we first show that, on average, religiosity of immigrants is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024590
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Social Contacts and the Economic Performance of Immigrants: A Panel Study of Immigrants in Germany
Kanas, Agnieszka; Chiswick, Barry R.; van der Lippe, Tanja - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examined the impact of social contacts on immigrant occupational status and income. In addition to general social contacts, we also analyzed the effects of bonding (i.e., co-ethnic) and bridging (i.e., interethnic) ties on economic outcomes....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147496
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Negative and Positive Assimilation By Prices and By Quantities
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper considers the labor market assimilation of immigrants in terms of earnings and employment (employment probability, unemployment probability, and hours worked per week). Using the 2006 Australian Census of Population and Housing the analyses are performed separately by gender, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010791519
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Negative and Positive Assimilation, Skill Transferability, and Linguistic Distance
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
market institutions to the host country, and has been tested previously primarily using migration among the English …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008788727