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Using an immigrant assimilation framework, this paper develops a model of the occupational mobility of immigrants and … tests the hypotheses using data on adult males from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia. The theoretical …
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Using an immigrant assimilation framework, this paper develops a model of the occupational mobility of immigrants and … tests the hypotheses using data on adult males from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia. The theoretical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262795
Using an immigrant assimilation framework, this paper develops a model of the occupational mobility of immigrants and … tests the hypotheses using data on adult males from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia. The theoretical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406873
This paper uses the approach in the under/over education literature to analyze the extent of matching of educational …. Married men, veterans and those living in metropolitan areas are also more likely to be overeducated. Among immigrants … overeducated and a greater probability of being undereducated. This is consistent with immigrants being favorably selected for …
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This paper is concerned with the English language requirements (both level and importance) of occupations in the United States, as measured by the O*NET database. These scores are linked to microdata on employed adult (aged 25 to 64) males, both native born and foreign born, as reported in the...
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This paper examines the determinants of occupational attainment and the impact of occupation on earnings. Results for both the native born and foreign born are presented, and these provide insights as to the earnings penalties associated with the less-than-perfect international transferability...
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international transferability of human capital skills results in immigrants entering into relatively low status occupations when …
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among the native born and immigrants in the United States and Australia. The analysis for immigrants is performed separately …
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measure is then used in an analysis of the determinants of English language proficiency among adult immigrants in the United …
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examines the relevance of the critical period to English proficiency among immigrants in the US. It uses microdata from the … language speaking proficiency among immigrants declines more-or-less monotonically with age at migration, and this relationship …
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