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Benefits of education at the intensive margin : childhood academic performance and adult outcomes among American immigrants

Gevrek, Deniz; Gevrek, Z. Eylem; Guven, Cahit - In: Eastern economic journal 41 (2015) 3, pp. 298-328

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Winners and losers among skilled migrants : the case of post-accession Polish migrants to the UK

Kaczmarczyk, Paweł; Tyrowicz, Joanna - 2015

We test if migration leads to increased wages. We take the example of Polish migrants to the United Kingdom and focus … on the mobility of well educated Poles. We offer insights into absolute and relative change in wages of the migrants … are negligible or even insignificant for the highly skilled migrants from Poland to the UK. These results hold for both …

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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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Does foreign language proficiency foster migration of young individuals within the European Union?

Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Kuehn, Zoë - 2014

Speaking the language of the host country eases migrants' integration and tends to boost their economic success in the … migrate. In addition, conditional on being a migrant, the relation between language skills and migrants' integration and …

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International migration, returns to education and increasing educational attainment of the native labor force : can unskilled immigrants be preferred over skilled ones?

Comelatto, Pablo Abel - 2008

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Social distance and wage inequalities for immigrants in Switzerland

Ebner, Christian; Helbling, Marc - In: Work, employment & society : a journal of the British … 30 (2016) 3, pp. 436-454

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Labor market outcomes of highly educated immigrants : does your name matter?

Xu, Dafeng - 2015 - (Very preliminary version)

Prior empirical research shows that acculturation in the host country might be positively related to immigrants? labor market outcomes. However, whether acculturation helps highly educated immigrants in the labor market is in question, as they have completed a significant fraction of human...

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Examining the relationships between labour market mismatches, earnings and job satisfaction among immigrant graduates in Europe

McGuinness, Séamus; Byrne, Delma - 2014

This paper uses graduate survey data and econometric methods to estimate the incidence and wage/job satisfaction effects of over-education and overskilling among immigrants graduating from EU 15 based universities in 2005. Female immigrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a...

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Examining the relationships between labour market mismatches, earnings and job satisfaction among immigrant graduates in Europe

McGuinness, Séamus; Byrne, Delma - 2014

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403441

Benefits of education at the intensive margin : childhood academic performance and adult outcomes among American immigrants

Gevrek, Deniz; Gevrek, Z. Eylem; Guven, Cahit - 2014

Using the Children of the Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS), we examine the association between education at the intensive margin and twenty pecuniary and non-pecuniary adult outcomes among first- and second-generation American immigrant youth. Education at the intensive margin is measured by...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457898

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