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This paper analyzes the impact of missionary activity on English language proficiency and labor market earnings of all … immigrants to the United States by using the pooled files of the American Community Survey (2005-09). We consider the colonial … immigrants from countries with a high concentration of Protestant missionaries tend to exhibit higher levels of English …
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destination language skills, and Economic incentives for acquiring this proficiency, (3) the consequences for immigrants of … acquiring destination language proficiency, with an emphasis on labor market outcomes, and in particular earnings. Factors that …
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regulatory conditions on immigrant-native gaps across four outcomes; unemployment, monthly earnings, underemployment, and … precarious contracts. The empirical results suggest that immigrant-native gaps are larger in countries with more immigrants …. Evidence also indicates that a stricter regulation of regular contracts increases the immigrant-native earnings gap and …
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regression, we inspect the earnings effects of job mismatches for immigrants in Australia. This first application of the method … earnings distribution. Immigrants from non-English speaking countries experience lower earnings returns and a substantial … penalty based on regression at the mean, at the highest earnings quantile, both Australian-born and immigrants from non …
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This paper analyzes the impact of missionary activity on English language proficiency and labor market earnings of all … immigrants to the United States by using the pooled files of the American Community Survey (2005-09). We consider the colonial … immigrants from countries with a high concentration of Protestant missionaries tend to exhibit higher levels of English …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011524
individual characteristics on earnings. This helped us to prevent selectivity biases such as cohort bias and survivor bias, which … are disproportionately non-white, suffer an earnings penalty in the labour market, whereas higher paid immigrants, whom …-native earnings gap across the entire earnings distribution, across continents of nationality and across cohorts of arrival in the UK …
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individual characteristics on earnings. This helped us to prevent selectivity biases such as cohort bias and survivor bias, which … are disproportionately non-white, suffer an earnings penalty in the labour market, whereas higher paid immigrants, whom …-native earnings gap across the entire earnings distribution, across continents of nationality and across cohorts of arrival in the UK …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009516907
With the rapid increase in educational attainment, technological change, and greater job specialization, decisions regarding human capital investment are no longer exclusively about the quantity of education, but rather the type of education to obtain. The skills and knowledge acquired in...
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- Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that … education is a risky investment. These results suggest a positive interaction between schooling and ability with respect to … earnings. …
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- Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that … education is a risky investment. These results suggest a positive interaction between schooling and ability with respect to … earnings. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325999