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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

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 pre-immigration experience. That is, greater proficiency in the … official languages enhances the effects on earnings of schooling and pre-immigration labor market experience. Language …

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The impact of surplus skills on earnings: Extending the over-education model to language proficiency

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - In: Economics of Education Review 36 (2013) C, pp. 263-275

This paper examines whether the framework developed in the educational mismatch field of research can be generalized to language skills. It uses data from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) database and both “Worker Self-Assessment” and “Realized Matches” procedures to quantify...

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Matching Language Proficiency to Occupation: The Effect on Immigrants' Earnings

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS), … - 2011

English requirements or norms using the Over/Required/Under (or ORU) technique developed for the study of schooling. The …

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Changes over time in the return to education in urban China: Conventional and ORU estimates

Ren, Weiwei; Miller, Paul W. - In: China Economic Review 23 (2012) 1, pp. 154-169

findings. The finding by Chen and Hamori (2009), from analysis of data for 2004 and 2006, of the return to schooling for males …

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The Complementarity of Language and Other Human Capital: Immigrant Earnings in Canada

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

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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Schooling, Literacy, Numeracy and Labor Market Success

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

This paper uses data from the 1996 Australian Survey of Aspects of Literacy to examine the effects on labour market outcomes of literacy, numeracy and educational attainment. The survey includes a range of literacy and numeracy variables that are highly inter-correlated. A ?general to specific?...

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Why is the payoff to schooling smaller for immigrants?

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2005

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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Educational mismatch: are high-skilled immigrants really working at high-skilled jobs and the price they pay if they aren't?

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

schooling that are above that which is usual for a worker's occupation are associated with very low increases in earnings … schooling serves as a pathway to occupational attainment, earnings appear to be more closely linked to a worker's occupation … than to the individual's level of schooling. …

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ORU analyses of immigrant earnings in Australia, with international comparisons

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

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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Does the choice of reference levels of education matter in the ORU earnings equation?

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

, the answers provided to the typical research questions in the ORU literature on the utilization of schooling are …

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