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-education, but also one of the few to study the moderating roles of gender and education for detailed categories of immigrants. With … particularly critical among higher-educated immigrants. Gender-based differences in immigrants' penalties, in contrast, are found … immigrants born in developing countries to be over-educated and that citizenship acquisition is also associated with …
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This paper estimates the contribution of human capital to the Black-white earnings gap in three separate samples of men spanning from 1966 through 2017, using both educational attainment and performance on standardized tests to measure human capital. There are three main findings. First, the...
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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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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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. 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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matching, in a comparative analysis between immigrants and natives. Using the EU Labour Force Survey for the year 2012, and … likelihood of being overeducated decreases for self-employed immigrants, with inconclusive results for selfemployed natives. The … results shed light on the extent to which immigrants adjust to labour market imperfections and barriers to employment and …
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dropout rate and age of arrival of the immigrants. Using repeated cross sectional data from the Israeli Labor Force Surveys of …
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dropout rate and age of arrival of the immigrants. Using repeated cross sectional data from the Israeli Labor Force Surveys of …
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the dropout rate and age at arrival of the immigrants. Using repeated cross sectional data from the Israeli Labor Force …
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This paper estimates the contribution of human capital to the Black-white earnings gap in three separate samples of men spanning from 1966 through 2017, using both educational attainment and performance on standardized tests to measure human capital. There are three main findings. First, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013238291