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A common finding throughout the Canadian immigration literature is that, despite having high levels of education, recent immigrants endure substantial earnings disadvantages upon arrival that persist throughout their working career. This paper investigates the role of “qualitative”...
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graduates. As a source of identifying variation, we exploit the introduction and expansion of the European ERASMUS student …
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The quality dimension of immigrant human capital has received little attention in the economic assimilation literature. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how human capital acquired in different source countries may be adjusted according to its quality in the Canadian labor market....
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Using the Children of the Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS), we examine the association between education at the intensive margin and twenty pecuniary and non-pecuniary adult outcomes among first- and second-generation American immigrant youth. Education at the intensive margin is measured by...
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Strong and relevant skills are vital for helping Iceland to adjust to rapidly changing technology and competition in … background, lack solid core skills and competences that weakens the skills-base. Vocational and tertiary education do not always … provide skills needed by the labour market. A comprehensive approach is required to strengthen skills, based on systematic …
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these countries. -- Migration ; university graduates ; scientists & engineers …Using a dataset of science and engineering graduates from 12 European countries, we analyse the determinants of labour …. Contrary to our expectations, job characteristics such as the utilisation of skills in the job and involvement in innovation …
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