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This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation … international transferability of immigrants' human capital, and undereducation to favorable selection in immigration. Comparisons …
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of English proficiency and earnings than other immigrants, other variables being the same. However, they have a steeper … schooling on earnings than other immigrants, even other European immigrants. The lower initial English proficiency and earnings … low English proficiency and earnings of those recently arrived in the 2000 Census data reflects a refugee assimilation …
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This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation …, by level of skill, and by occupation. While point estimates differ, particularly when earnings equations are estimated …
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This paper is an analysis of the English-language proficiency and labor market earnings of Soviet Jewish immigrants to … English proficiency and earnings than other immigrants, other variables being the same. However, they have a steeper … schooling on earnings than other immigrants, even other European immigrants. The lower initial English proficiency and earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261992
The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many - if not most - migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...
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This paper considers the labor market assimilation of immigrants in terms of earnings and employment (employment …, the pattern of negative assimilation is observed. -- immigrants ; assimilation ; earnings ; hours worked ; employment … country (ESDC). Among men in general, 'negative assimilation' is found for immigrants from the ESDC, and positive assimilation …
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This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation … international transferability of immigrants' human capital, and undereducation to favorable selection in immigration. Comparisons …. The sensitivity of the results of the decomposition to several measurement issues is assessed. -- Immigrants ; schooling …
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of English proficiency and earnings than other immigrants, other variables being the same. However, they have a steeper … schooling on earnings than other immigrants, even other European immigrants. The lower initial English proficiency and earnings … low English proficiency and earnings of those recently arrived in the 2000 Census data reflects a refugee assimilation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318316
This study finds evidence of wage divergence between immigrants and natives in Germany using a country-wide household … panel from 1984 to 2014. We incorporate the possibility of wage divergence into a two-period model of economic assimilation … immigrants and natives. Individual rates of wage convergence are found to be higher for immigrants who fled warfare zones, belong …
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regulatory conditions on immigrant-native gaps across four outcomes; unemployment, monthly earnings, underemployment, and … precarious contracts. The empirical results suggest that immigrant-native gaps are larger in countries with more immigrants …. Evidence also indicates that a stricter regulation of regular contracts increases the immigrant-native earnings gap and …
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