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The economic progress of American Jewry : from 18th century merchants to 21st century professionals
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2009
and women, compared to non-Jews, with additional analyses of earnings, self-employment, and wealth. The Jews in Colonial …-employed professionals. The high level of human wealth of contemporary American Jews is not at the expense of non-human wealth. Overall, and … even when other variables including schooling are held constant, Jews have higher levels of wealth and higher rates of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003922125
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The economic progress of American Jewry: from 18th century merchants to 21st century professionals
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2009
and women, compared to non-Jews, with additional analyses of earnings, self-employment, and wealth. The Jews in Colonial …-employed professionals. The high level of human wealth of contemporary American Jews is not at the expense of non-human wealth. Overall, and … even when other variables including schooling are held constant, Jews have higher levels of wealth and higher rates of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269403
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The "negative" assimilation of immigrants : a special case
Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor);  … - 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/10003726800
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Earnings and occupational attainment among immigrants
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - In: Industrial relations : a journal of economy & society 48 (2009) 3, pp. 454-465
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003862888
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ORU analyses of immigrant earnings in Australia, with international comparisons
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009
This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation/required education/undereducation (ORU) framework (Hartog, 2000) and a decomposition of the native-born/foreign-born differential in the payoff to schooling developed by Chiswick and Miller...
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Does the choice of reference levels of education matter in the ORU earnings equation?
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - In: Economics of education review 29 (2010) 6, pp. 1076-1085
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The negative assimilation of immigrants : a special case
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - In: ILR review : the journal of work and policy 64 (2010/11) 3, pp. 502-525
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009260151
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Russian Jewish immigrants in the United States : the adjustment of their English language proficiency and earnings in the American Community Survey
Chiswick, Barry R.; Larsen, Nicholas - 2012
Compared to other immigrants to the United States, recent Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union have achieved high levels of English language proficiency and earnings. They experience disadvantages in both dimensions at arrival, but because of steeper improvements with duration in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009621676
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Negative and positive assimilation, skill transferability, and linguistic distance
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - In: Journal of human capital : JHC 6 (2012) 1, pp. 35-55
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009624618
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The linguistic and economic adjustment of Soviet Jewish immigrants in the United States, 2000 : a preliminary report
Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor); Wenz, Michael (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002181974