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Does the Choice of Reference Levels of Education Matter in the ORU Earnings Equation?

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

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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Why is the Payoff to Schooling Smaller for Immigrants?

Miller, Paul W.; Chiswick, Barry R. - Department of Economics, Business School - 2006

migrants, especially those from countries other than the English-speaking developed countries. The decomposition developed is … used to quantify the contribution of favorable selection in immigration and the less-than-perfect international …

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Immigrant Earnings: A Longitudinal Analysis

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

for immigrants with higher levels of skill and who are economic/skills tested migrants, as distinct from family based and … refugee migrants. The analysis indicates that immigrant economic assimilation does occur and that in these data the cross …

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Immigrant earnings : a longitudinal analysis

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor); Lee, Yew Liang (contributor) - 2005

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Does the Choice of Reference Levels of Education Matter in the Oru Earnings Equation?

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2009

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Negative and Positive Assimilation by Prices and by Quantities

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2013

immigrant women from the ESDC, who are more likely than married immigrant women from the same countries to be economic migrants …

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Immigrants’ Language Skills and Visa Category

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

after immigration, followed by family-based visa recipients, with refugees having the lowest proficiency. These differences … disappear by 3 ½ years after immigration for speaking skills, but they persist for reading and writing skills. The variables …

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Immigrants' Language Skills and Visa Category

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - Department of Economics, Business School - 2002

after immigration, followed by family-based visa recipients, with refugees having the lowest proficiency. These differences … disappear by 3 1/2 years after immigration for speaking skills but they persist for reading and writing skills. The variables …

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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

This paper extends the analysis of the acquisition of destination language proficiency among immigrants by explicitly incorporating dynamics among family members – mother, father and children. Single equation, bivariate, and four-state (multivariate) probit analyses are employed. Immigrant...

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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...

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