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From engineer to taxi driver? : language proficiency and the occupational skills of immigrants
Imai, Susumu; Stacey, Derek; Warman, Casey - 2018
We examine the ability of immigrants to transfer the occupational human capital they acquired prior to immigration. We … less intently on manual skills. Following immigration, they find initial employment in occupations that require the …
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On immigration and native entrepreneurship
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; McHenry, Peter - 2021
We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneur-ship by being willing and able to invest in new skills. Immigrants whose human capitalis not immediately transferable to the host country face lower opportunity costs ofinvesting in new skills or methods and will be...
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On immigration and native entrepreneurship
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; McHenry, Peter - 2021
We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by being willing and able to invest in new skills. Immigrants whose human capital is not immediately transferable to the host country face lower opportunity costs of investing in new skills or methods and will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012486484
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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...
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International students, immigration and earnings growth : the effect of a pre-immigration host-country university education
Hou, Feng; Lu, Yuqian - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 7 (2017) 5, pp. 1-24
While destination-country education provides many potential advantages for immigrants, empirical studies in Australia …-educated immigrants are a highly heterogeneous group, and the key factor differentiating their post-immigration earnings from the earnings … becoming permanent residents. Furthermore, an extra year of Canadian work experience or an extra year of Canadian education …
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Immigrant Wages in the Spanish Labor Market. Does the Origin of Human Capital Matter? (Los Salarios de los Inmigrantes en el Mercado de Trabajo Español. ¿Importa el Origen del Capi...
Sanroma, Esteban; Ramos, Raul; Simon, Hipolito - 2011
studied in Spain. Whatever their home country, they obtain relatively high wage returns to education, including the part not …
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Chapter 3. The Adjustment of Immigrants in the Labor Market
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 105-182). 2015
This chapter explores immigrant labor market adjustment by first describing methodological and theoretical considerations central to the analysis of earnings growth and occupational mobility. When no restrictions are placed on entry earnings or earnings growth, an inverse relationship between...
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Human capital quality and the immigrant wage gap
Coulombe, Serge; Grenier, Gilles; Nadeau, Serge J. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-22
We propose a new methodology for analyzing determinants of the wage gap between immigrants and natives. A Mincerian regression framework is extended to include GDP per capita in an immigrant's country of birth as a proxy for the quality of schooling and work experience acquired in that country....
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The portability of new immigrants' human capital: Language, education and occupational matching
Goldmann, Gustave; Sweetman, Arthur; Warman, Casey - 2011
appreciable direct impact on earnings, and to mediate the return to pre-immigration education but not labour market experience. …The implications of human capital portability - including interactions between education, language skills and pre- and … post-immigration occupational matching - for earnings are explored for new immigrants to Canada. Given the importance of …
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Does background matter? : the transmission of human capital from a planned to a market economy
Gang, Ira N.; Stuart, Robert C. - 1999
education, experience and industry variables have important, variable and differing impacts upon both participation and income …
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