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international transferability of skills. A longer duration in the U.S., however, is associated with a lower probability of being … international transferability of their pre-immigration skills …
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with the less-than-perfect international transferability of human capital skills. It shows that around 50 percent of the …
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This paper explores the theoretical issues and the empirical literature regarding the selectivity of migrants. Although the primary focus is on international migration, reference is made to internal migration and return migration. The theoretical analysis indicates a tendency toward the...
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primary focuses are on: (1) the effect of the language skills of an individual on the choice of destination among … destination language skills, and Economic incentives for acquiring this proficiency, (3) the consequences for immigrants of …
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complementarity between language skills and both schooling and preimmigration experience. That is, greater proficiency in the official …
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This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data are for males and females age 18 to 55, who married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community...
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This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data are for males and females age 18 to 55, who married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149386
's language skills and the dominant language in the destination. The determinants of destination language proficiency are shown to … benefits of destination proficiency or the complementarity of destination language skills and investments in other forms of …
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This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation/under-education (ORU) literature are sensitive to whether the usual or reference levels of education are measured using the Realized Matches or Worker Self-Assessment methods. The...
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This paper examines the difference between the payoffs to schooling for immigrants and the native born in Canada, using 2001 Census data. Analyses are presented for males and females. Comparisons are offered with findings for the US. The paper uses the Overeducation/Required...
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