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While motherhood is one of the main reasons for the persistence of gender gaps, its impact on the rising share of immigrant mothers in Europe is less well understood. This paper asks how the burden of childcare affects the labor market integration of immigrants. To identify the contribution of...
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major immigration reforms in Germany, a country with a relatively weak record of immigrant assimilation. For identification …
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This paper is an analysis of the determinates of Hebrew language speaking and writing skills and the determinates of … migration and if many others in the area in which the respondent lives speak the same origin language. Country of origin and … family structure also matter. Earnings are found to increase with level of schooling, duration in Israel, pre-immigration …
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We examine the ability of immigrants to transfer the occupational human capital they acquired prior to immigration. We … first augment a model of occupational choice to study the implications of language proficiency on the cross … less intently on manual skills. Following immigration, they find initial employment in occupations that require the …
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I examine the effect of English language proficiency on the occupational choices of childhood immigrants into the …'s superior language acquisition abilities to estimate the causal effect of English language skills on immigrants' choice of … English language acquisition difficulty among native speakers of other languages. I find that higher proficiency allows …
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This paper is an analysis of the determinates of Hebrew language speaking and writing skills and the determinates of … migration and if many others in the area in which the respondent lives speak the same origin language. Country of origin and … family structure also matter. Earnings are found to increase with level of schooling, duration in Israel, pre-immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321255
This paper is an analysis of the determinates of Hebrew language speaking and writing skills and the determinates of … migration and if many others in the area in which the respondent lives speak the same origin language. Country of origin and … family structure also matter. Earnings are found to increase with level of schooling, duration in Israel, pre-immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001521676
This paper provides new evidence on how the presence of immigrant peers in the classroom affects native student achievement. The analysis is based on longitudinal administrative data on two cohorts of vocational training students in Italy's largest region. Vocational training institutions...
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This paper exploits a quasi-experiment to shed light on whether the wage penalty experienced by migrants reflects poor schooling quality in the country of education or employers' discrimination in the host country. The quasi-experiment is the possibility for migrants to undertake an official...
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immigration, the presence of immigrant children in schools, and the effect of immigration on the age, sex, language, and … about the extent to which the character of immigration varies as well. There is much broader geographic variation in the …
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