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The "Negative" Assimilation of Immigrants: A Special Case
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10005822231
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The Complementarity of Language and Other Human Capital: Immigrant Earnings in Canada
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
proficiency and post-migration experience appear to be substitutes, that is, those with greater proficiency have a smaller effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822761
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Longitudinal Analysis of Immigrant Occupational Mobility: A Test of the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis
Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
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 model generates hypotheses regarding a U-shaped pattern of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005823006
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International Migration and the Economics of Language
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper provides a review of the research on the ‘economics of language' as applied to international migration. Its … are considered include age, education, gender, family structure, costs of migration, linguistic distance, duration in the … destination, return migration, and ethnic enclaves, among others. Analyses are reported for the immigrant experiences in the US …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790510
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Negative and Positive Assimilation By Prices and By Quantities
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper considers the labor market assimilation of immigrants in terms of earnings and employment (employment probability, unemployment probability, and hours worked per week). Using the 2006 Australian Census of Population and Housing the analyses are performed separately by gender, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010791519
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Negative and Positive Assimilation, Skill Transferability, and Linguistic Distance
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
market institutions to the host country, and has been tested previously primarily using migration among the English …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008788727
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Parents and Children Talk : The Family Dynamics of English Language Proficiency
Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2004
) probit analyses are employed. Immigrant English language skills are greater the younger the age at migration, the longer the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261966
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Where Immigrants Settle in the United States
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2004
This paper is concerned with the location of immigrants in the United States, as reported in the 1990 Census. Where they settle has implications for the economic, social and political impact of immigrants. Immigrants are highly geographically concentrated. Compared to the native born they are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261987
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Language Skills and Immigrant Adjustment : What Immigration Policy Can Do!
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2004
category, educational attainment and age at migration impact on immigrant?s language skills. The increased English Proficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262160
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Immigrants' Language Skills: The Australian Experience in a Longitudinal Survey
Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
This paper is concerned with the determinants of English language proficiency (speaking, reading and writing) among immigrants. It presents a model of immigrant destination language acquisition based on economic incentives, exposure to the destination language, and efficiency in second language...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262738