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The quality dimension of immigrant human capital has received little attention in the economic assimilation literature … virtually eliminates native-immigrant gaps in returns to schooling and the incidence of over-education. The quality of human …
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of this research is disaggregating the sample into seven distinct immigrant groups (based on admission class) and second … and third-generation Canadians. Our results show that no immigrant group performs as well on literacy and numeracy tests …, our metric for success in the labour market. Of the immigrant subgroups, economic immigrants tend to have the highest test …
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This study investigates the role of intergenerational mobility in explaining the native-immigrant income gap in Estonia … mobility is relatively high in Estonia both for natives and children of foreign-born, the native-immigrant earnings gap has not …
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This paper analyses the wage effects of educational mismatch by workers' origin using a sizeable, detailed matched employer-employee dataset for Belgium. Relying on a fine-grained approach to measuring educational mismatch, the results show that over-educated workers, regardless of their origin,...
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The recent literature on overeducation has provided divergent results on whether or not overeducation bears an earnings penalty. In addition, few studies have considered overeducation among immigrants. This paper uses panel data analyses to investigate the match between education and occupation...
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This volume was prepared by Jens Ruhose while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes four self-contained chapters that contribute to the understanding of the...
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This paper examines the impact of potential fetal malnutrition on the academic proficiency of Muslim students in Denmark. We account for the endogeneity of fetal malnutrition by using the exposure to the month of Ramadan during time in utero as a natural experiment, under the assumption that...
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location choice of immigrants and the reflection problem. We exploit a rare immigrant settlement policy in Germany to identify …
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Research has shown that birthweight has a lasting impact on later-life outcomes such as educational attainment and earnings. This paper examines the role of health at birth in determining academic achievement in childhood, which may provide the link between birthweight and adult outcomes. Using...
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Research has shown that birthweight has a lasting impact on later-life outcomes such as educational attainment and earnings. This paper examines the role of health at birth in determining academic achievement in childhood, which may provide the link between birthweight and adult outcomes. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315601