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This paper analyzes the impact of missionary activity on English language proficiency and labor market earnings of all immigrants to the United States by using the pooled files of the American Community Survey (2005-09). We consider the colonial heritage of the origin country to determine if it...
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore how potential exposure to missionary activity impacts both English language proficiency and labor market earnings of male and female immigrants to the United States. Design/Methodology/Approach: This study uses the pooled files of the American...
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Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with … complementarity between language skills and both schooling and preimmigration experience. That is, greater proficiency in the official … languages enhances the effects on earnings of schooling and pre-immigration labor market experience. Language proficiency and …
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Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with … complementarity between language skills and both schooling and preimmigration experience. That is, greater proficiency in the official … languages enhances the effects on earnings of schooling and pre-immigration labor market experience. Language proficiency and …
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payoff to schooling developed by Chiswick and Miller (2008). This decomposition links overeducation to the less-than- perfect … selection and the limited international transferability of human capital to the lower payoff to schooling for the foreign born …
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, the answers provided to the typical research questions in the ORU literature on the utilization of schooling are …
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This paper examines the difference between the payoffs to schooling for immigrants and the native born in Canada, using … lower payoff to schooling because of the different effects under-education and over-education have on their earnings. The …
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This paper analyzes the impact of missionary activity on English language proficiency and labor market earnings of all immigrants to the United States by using the pooled files of the American Community Survey (2005-09). We consider the colonial heritage of the origin country to determine if it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011524
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This paper is concerned with why immigrants appear to have consistently lower partial effects of schooling on earnings … Census of the United States. Based on the average (mean or mode) level of schooling in their occupation, the schooling of the …. Immigrants have a wider variance in schooling, with an especially large proportion undereducated given the average schooling …
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