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A historical note on the assimilation rates of foreign-born women in the U.S.
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Dowhan, Dan; Liu, Xingfei - 2023
Using historical, longitudinal data on individuals, we track the earnings of immigrant and U.S.-born women. Following individuals, instead of synthetic cohorts, avoids biases in earnings-growth estimates caused by compositional changes in the cohorts that are followed. The historical data...
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Education as a Source of Economic Growth. Rate of Return to Schooling
Kassapi, Sophia - 2014
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Education as a Source of Economic Growth. Rate of Return to Schooling
Kassapi, Sophia - 2016
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The returns to occupational foreign language use : evidence from Germany
Heidland, Tobias - 2013
premia for applying their native language on the job in addition to those for English, their trade-fostering potential seems …
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The complementarity of language and other human capital : immigrant earnings in Canada
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 … complementarity between language skills and both schooling and preimmigration experience. That is, greater proficiency in the official … languages enhances the effects on earnings of schooling and pre-immigration labor market experience. Language proficiency and …
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Entrepreneurship, human capital, and labor demand : a story of signaling and matching
Bublitz, Elisabeth; Nielsen, Kristian; Noseleit, Florian; … - 2015
Contrary to employees, there is no clear evidence that entrepreneurs' education positively effects income. In this study we propose that entrepreneurs can benefit from their education as a signal during the recruitment process of employees. This process is then assumed to follow a matching of...
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The returns to elite college education : a quasi-experimental analysis
Anelli, Massimo - 2016
I take advantage of a sharp discontinuity in the probability of admission to an elite university at the admission score threshold, to estimate causal returns to college education quality. I use a newly constructed dataset, which combines individual administrative records about high school,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011531928
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The returns to elite college education : a quasi-experimental analysis
Anelli, Massimo - 2016
I take advantage of a sharp discontinuity in the probability of admission to an elite university at the admission score threshold, to estimate causal returns to college education quality. I use a newly constructed dataset, which combines individual administrative records about high school,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011536219
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The returns to education : a meta-study
Clark, Gregory; Nielsen, Christian Alexander Abildgaard - 2024
There have been many studies estimating the causal effect of an additional year of education on earnings. The majority employ administrative changes in the minimum school leaving age as the mechanism allowing identification. Here we survey 66 such estimates. However, remarkably, while the...
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The Complementarity of Language and Other Human Capital : Immigrant Earnings in Canada
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2021
This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 … complementarity between language skills and both schooling and pre-immigration experience. That is, greater proficiency in the … official languages enhances the effects on earnings of schooling and pre-immigration labor market experience. Language …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320603