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The Labor Market Effects of English Language Proficiency : Communication Skills and the Occupational Choice of Childhood Immigrants to the United States
Hlavac, Marek - 2013
United States. In particular, I focus on the annual earnings and skills composition associated with immigrants' chosen … immigrants to work in more lucrative occupations. In addition, a better grasp of the English language leads immigrants to choose …I examine the effect of English language proficiency on the occupational choices of childhood immigrants into the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072219
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Communication barriers and infant health : intergenerational effects of randomly allocating refugees across language regions
Auer, Daniel; Kunz, Johannes - 2021
This paper investigates the intergenerational effect of communication barriers on child health at birth using a natural experiment in Switzerland. We leverage the fact that refugees arriving in Switzerland originate from places that have large shares of French (or Italian) speakers for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012548273
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Early skill gap effects on long-run outcomes and parental investments
Celhay, Pablo A.; Gallegos, Sebastián - 2019
This paper examines the effects of skill advantages at age six on different types of parental investments, and long-run outcomes up to age 27. We exploit exogenous variation in skills due to school entry rules, combining 20 years of Chilean administrative records with a regression discontinuity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152937
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The Intergenerational Effects of Language Proficiency on Child Health Outcomes
Black, Nicole - 2019
Language proficiency is a crucial skill for immigrants that influences their social integration and their children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868606
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Age at Immigration and High School Dropouts
Cohen-Goldner, Sarit - 2014
dropout rate and age of arrival of the immigrants. Using repeated cross sectional data from the Israeli Labor Force Surveys of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049063
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Immigrant category of admission and the earnings of adults and children : how far does the apple fall?
Warman, Casey; Webb, Matthew; Worswick, Christopher - 2018
women. Child Arrival immigrants landing in the Skilled Worker Class have earnings advantages (as adults) over their Family …Immigrants in many Western countries have experienced poor economic outcomes. This has led to a lack of integration of … child immigrants (the 1.5 generation) and the second generation in some countries. However, in Canada, child immigrants and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131428
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Early life environment and racial inequality in education and earnings in the United States
Chay, Kenneth Y.; Guryan, Jonathan; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2014
earnings gaps match those in early life health and test scores already established. It also addresses caveats in the earlier … relative increase in the probability of blacks going to college; and ii) a similar convergence in relative earnings that is … variation in racial convergence across birth states matches the patterns in the earlier study. The magnitude of the earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011460662
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Early life environment and racial inequality in education and earnings in the United States
Chay, Kenneth Y.; Guryan, Jonathan; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2014
earnings gaps match those in early life health and test scores already established. It also addresses caveats in the earlier … relative increase in the probability of blacks going to college; and ii) a similar convergence in relative earnings that is … variation in racial convergence across birth states matches the patterns in the earlier study. The magnitude of the earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010442547
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Early Life Environment and Racial Inequality in Education and Earnings in the United States
Chay, Kenneth Y. - 2014
earnings gaps match those in early life health and test scores already established. It also addresses caveats in the earlier … relative increase in the probability of blacks going to college; and ii) a similar convergence in relative earnings that is … variation in racial convergence across birth states matches the patterns in the earlier study. The magnitude of the earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039967
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Parents and Children Talk : The Family Dynamics of English Language Proficiency
Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew L.; Miller, Paul W. - 2021
This paper extends the analysis of the acquisition of destination language proficiency among immigrants by explicitly … duration of residence, the higher the level of education, and for immigrants not from Asia. Large positive correlations in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319156