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Limits to wage growth : understanding the wage divergence between immigrants and natives
Jain, Apoorva; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2017
to established ethnic networks, and acquired more years of pre-migration schooling. Using a doubly robust treatment … effect estimator and the IV method, the study finds that the endogenous post-migration education in the host country …
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Do Modern Forms of Human Capital Matter in Primitive Economies? Comparative Evidence from Bolivia
Godoy, Ricardo; Karlan, Dean S.; Gamper-Rabindran, Shanti - 2008
We examine the correlation between modern human capital and income among adult men in four foraging horticultural societies of Bolivia. Despite their remote location, we find results similar to those found in developed nations. We find that: (a) education correlates with 4.5% higher overall...
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Provincial valuations of human capital in urban China, inter-provincial inequality and the implicit value of a Guangdong hukou
Zax, Jeffrey S. - 2016
This paper assesses regional inequality in contemporary urban China by predicting earningss for individual workers in multiple provinces, comparing the province of maximum predicted earnings to the province of residence and assessing the predicted gains from relocation. The paper performs the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011867074
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The Earnings of American Jewish Men : Human Capital, Denomination and Religiosity
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2006
This paper analyzes the determinants of the earnings of American Jewish men using the 2000/01 National Jewish Population Survey. Non-response to the question on earnings is analyzed. Earnings are related to conventional human capital variables, as well as Jewish-specific variables. Except for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779331
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The earnings of immigrants and the quality adjustment of immigrant human capital
Sharaf, Mesbah - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-18
The quality dimension of immigrant human capital has received little attention in the economic assimilation literature. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how human capital acquired in different source countries may be adjusted according to its quality in the Canadian labor market....
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International migration and the economics of language
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 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 …
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Chapter 5. International Migration and the Economics of Language
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 211-269). 2015
, Efficiency in acquiring destination language proficiency, including education, age at migration and linguistic distance, among …
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A "glass-ceiling" effect for immigrants in the Italian labour market?
Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Lucifora, Claudio; Pagani, Laura - 2012
This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the (imperfect) international transferability of human capital. Data are drawn from the 2009 Italian Labour Force Survey (LFS). We show that returns to human capital are considerably lower...
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Immigrant wages in the Spanish labour market: does the origin of human capital matter?
Sanromá, Esteban; Ramos, Raúl; Simón, Hipólito - 2009
The aim of this paper is to analyse the role played by the different components of human capital in the wage determination of recent immigrants within the Spanish labour market. Using microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes 2007, the paper examines returns to human capital of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269038
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Immigrant Wages in the Spanish Labor Market. Does the Origin of Human Capital Matter? (Los Salarios de los Inmigrantes en el Mercado de Trabajo Español. ¿Importa el Origen del Capi...
Sanroma, Esteban; Ramos, Raul; Simon, Hipolito - 2011
The aim of this paper is to analyse the role played by the different components of human capital in the wage determination of recent immigrants within the Spanish labour market. Using microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes 2007, the paper examines returns to human capital of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014182800