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after immigration, followed by family-based visa recipients, with refugees having the lowest proficiency. These differences … disappear by 3 – years after immigration for speaking skills, but they persist for reading and writing skills. The variables …
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, primary reasons for immigration, the subsidized intensive Hebrew language training program (ulpan), Ethiopian Jews, and Jewish … and non-Jewish immigrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU), in addition to standard immigration, demographic, and human …
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after immigration, followed by family-based visa recipients, with refugees having the lowest proficiency. These differences … disappear by 3 1/2 years after immigration for speaking skills, but they persist for reading and writing skills. The variables …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410920
after immigration, followed by family-based visa recipients, with refugees having the lowest proficiency. These differences … disappear by 3 ½ years after immigration for speaking skills, but they persist for reading and writing skills. The variables …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566815
after immigration, followed by family-based visa recipients, with refugees having the lowest proficiency. These differences … disappear by 3 1/2 years after immigration for speaking skills but they persist for reading and writing skills. The variables …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005730870
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Sweetman -- Immigration amnesty and immigrant's earnings / Ira N. Gang, Myeong-Su Yun -- Welfare reform and immigrants : does … the five-year ban matter? / Robert Kaestner, Neeraj Kaushal -- Impacts of the point system and immigration policy levers …Immigration to what is now the United States has been a contentious issue from the earliest days of the European …
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, primary reasons for immigration, the subsidized intensive Hebrew language training program (ulpan), Ethiopian Jews, and Jewish … and non-Jewish immigrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU), in addition to standard immigration, demographic, and human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559642
This paper is an analysis of the English-language proficiency and labor market earnings of Soviet Jewish immigrants to the United States from 1965 to 2000, using the 2000 Census of Population. Comparisons are made to similar analyses using the 1980 and 1990 Censuses. A consistent finding is that...
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This paper develops a scalar or quantitative measure of the ?distance? between English and a myriad of other (non-native American) languages. This measure is based on the difficulty Americans have learning other languages. The linguistic distance measure is then used in an analysis of the...
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