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Resisting the melting pot : the long term impact of maintaining identity for Franco-Americans in New England

MacKinnon, Mary; Parent, Daniel - In: Explorations in economic history : EEH 49 (2012) 1, pp. 30-59

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Institutions et scolarité : le cas des francophones au Québec vs les Américains d'origine canadienne-française

Parent, Daniel - In: L' Actualité économique : revue trimest. 90 (2014) 3, pp. 147-189

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New England's educational advantage : past successes and future prospects

Henderson, Yolanda Kodrzycki - In: New England economic review (2000), pp. 25-40

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Employment assimilation of immigrants in the Netherlands: catching up and the irrelevance of education

Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - 2008

Using two Dutch labour force surveys, employment assimilation of immigrants is examined. We observe marked differences … between immigrants by source country. Non-western immigrants never reach parity with native Dutch. Even second generation … immigrants never fully catch up. Caribbean immigrants, who share a colonial history with the Dutch, assimilate relatively quick …

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Ethnic intermarriage among immigrants: human capital and assortative mating

Chiswick, Barry R.; Houseworth, Christina A. - 2008

This paper analyzes the determinants of interethnic marriages among immigrants in the United States. The dependent … individuals with similar education levels, providing evidence of positive assortative mating by education for immigrants …

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How important is homeland education for refugees' economic position in the Netherlands?

Hartog, Joop; Zorlu, Aslan - 2005

We use data on refugees admitted to the Netherlands that include registration of education in their homeland by immigration officers. Such data are seldom available. We investigate the quality and reliability of the registrations and then use them to assess effects on refugees' economic position...

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A note on measures of human capital for immigrants: examining the American Community Survey and New Immigrant Survey

Akee, Randall K. Q.; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2008

In this paper we examine whether where one acquires their human capital matters in earnings regressions. We focus on a nationally-representative US data set and find that there is little difference between a measure of total years of education and measures for US and foreign-based years of...

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Does the choice of reference levels of education matter in the ORU earnings equation?

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 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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The effects of school quality in the origin on the payoff to schooling for immigrants

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2010

. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The … is associated with a higher payoff to schooling among immigrants in the US labor market. This higher payoff is associated … quality on the immigrant selection process, rather than the quality of immigrants' schooling per se, that is the major driver …

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The effect of immigration on the school performance of natives: Cross country evidence using PISA test scores

Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2011

We study whether a higher share of immigrant pupils affects the school performance of natives using aggregate multi-country data from PISA. We find evidence of a negative and statistically significant relationship. The size of the estimated effect is small: doubling the share of immigrant pupils...

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