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International Migration, Human Capital, and Entrepreneurship : Evidence from Philippine Migrants' Exchange Rate Shocks
Yang, Dean - 2006
Millions of households in developing countries receive financial support from family members working overseas. How do the economic prospects of overseas migrants affect origin-household investments - in particular, in child human capital and household enterprises? This paper examines Philippine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014071752
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270629
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262796
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406870
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An empirical study on the migration among young skilled and creative people
Suciu, Marta-Christina; Florea, Cristina Andreea - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 19 (2017) 46, pp. 727-741
In the context of a knowledge and innovative-based society and economy, smart and creative cities are attracting an increasing number of young people, most of them being gifted, very talented students and high-skilled workforce, with multiple competences . These young people are pro-active and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011791698
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Are Immigrants Favorably Self-Selected? An Economic Analysis
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2000
immigrants to be favorably selected, although this is less intense under the later criteria. The overall favorable selectivity of … immigrants, therefore, depends on the favorable selectivity of the supply of immigrants and the criteria used to ration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262350
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Are immigrants favorably self-selected? : an economic analysis
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2000
immigrants to be favorably selected, although this is less intense under the later criteria. The overall favorable selectivity of … immigrants, therefore, depends on the favorable selectivity of the supply of immigrants and the criteria used to ration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325988
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International migration and the economics of language
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2014
destination language skills, and Economic incentives for acquiring this proficiency, (3) the consequences for immigrants of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230532
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Labor market incorporation of immigrants in Japan and the United States : a comparative analysis
Cornelius, Wayne A.; Tsuda, Takeyuki - 2002
The most commonly used model of labor market incorporation among immigrants in the United States analyzes their … may lose much of its explanatory power in other societies, where immigrants encounter different labor market conditions … social networks by immigrants to find jobs has a significant impact on wages in both countries, the effect is positive in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411093
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Wage distributions in origin societies and occupational choices of immigrant generations in the US
Zhan, Crystal - 2020
This paper studies the occupational selection among generations of immigrants in the United States and links their … time that immigrants spend in the US and over generations. Information friction may be an explanation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299919