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inevitably be considered and people use language and create Babel of incoherent possibilities. This paper deals with the various …
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USA is of our own making. US taxpayer financed agricultural subsidies render Mexican farmers unable to compete. Poverty … fuels migration (Peace, 2009). If US taxpayers are financing agricultural subsidies that encourage immigration to the USA …
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return to investment in language skills is higher. Another explanation is that female migrants are more likely to marry local … returns to speaking standard Mandarin among internal migrants in China’s urban labour market. The paper builds on studies that … estimate the economic returns to international immigrants of being fluent in the major language of the destination country and …
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English proficiency is increasingly recognized as an important factor that is related to the mental health of immigrants and ethnic minorities. However, few studies have examined how the association between English proficiency and mental health operates and whether the pattern of association is...
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This study sought to examine the influence of length of stay and language proficiency on immigrants’ access to and … (less than 10 years) and limited language proficiency generally had lower rates of access/use compared with those with … longer length of stay (10 years or more) and proficiency in each country’s official language(s), respectively. There was one …
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"This paper examines the effect of accumulated human capital, and particularly occupational human capital, on the earnings losses of displaced workers. Unlike most of the previous studies of job displacement, this paper uses a continuous measure of occupational skills transferability to measure...
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"This paper analyses the (self-)selection of migrants between countries which have substantial differences in the … less than proportional with the income level. As a consequence, migrants can be favourably self-selected although the … that migrants tend to be positively (self-)selected although the inequality in earnings is larger in the destination …
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"This paper analyses the (self-)selection of migrants between countries which have substantial differences in the … less than proportional with the income level. As a consequence, migrants can be favourably self-selected although the … that migrants tend to be positively (self-)selected although the inequality in earnings is larger in the destination …
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rating methodology and assess the ratings of these agencies in regards to Greece, France, and the USA. …
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This paper empirically investigates the performance of transfer students from two-year colleges to four-year institutions at the course-level, especially colleges with significant minority student population. Advantages of looking at transfer student's performance at the course level are;...
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