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Gender, educational attainment, and the impact of parental migration on children left behind
Antman, Francisca M. - 2012
experience. The results point to a statistically significant positive effect of paternal U.S. migration on education for girls …Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact … siblings' ages at the time of parental migration. The basic assumption underlying the analysis is that parental migration will …
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Best and brightest? : the impact of student visa restrictiveness on who attends college in the US
Chen, Mingyu; Howell, Jessica; Smith, Jonathan - 2022
-scoring international SAT takers do not pursue US college education. …
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The effect of low-skill immigration restrictions on US firms and workers : evidence from a randomized lottery
Clemens, Michael A.; Lewis, Ethan - 2022
The U.S. limits work visas for low-skill jobs outside of agriculture, with a binding quota that firms access via a randomized lottery. We evaluate the marginal impact of the quota on firms entering the 2021 H-2B visa lottery using a novel survey and pre-analysis plan. Firms exogenously...
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Quotas and quality: The effect of H-1B visa restrictions on the pool of prospective undergraduate students from abroad
Kato, Takao; Sparber, Chad - 2010
In deliberating whether to pursue an undergraduate education in the US, a foreign student takes into consideration the …
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Quotas and quality : the effect of H-1B visa restrictions on the pool of prospective undergraduate students from abroad
Kato, Takao; Sparber, Chad - 2010
In deliberating whether to pursue an undergraduate education in the US, a foreign student takes into consideration the …. -- Skilled immigration ; H-1B visa ; college education ; SAT scores …
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Assimilation through marriage
Epstein, Gil S.; Lindner Pomerantz, Renana - 2012
During the last few decades cultural changes have been taking place in many countries due to migration. The degree to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335974
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Assimilation through marriage
Epstein, Gil S.; Lindner Pomerantz, Renana - 2012
During the last few decades cultural changes have been taking place in many countries due to migration. The degree to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289852
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The occupations and human capital of U.S. immigrants
Schoellman, Todd - 2009
This paper estimates the multi-dimensional human capital endowments of immigrants by characterizing their occupational decisions. This approach allows for estimation of physical skill and cognitive ability endowments, which are difficult to measure directly. Estimation implies that immigrants as...
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Individualism vs. collectivism : how inherited cultural values affect labor market outcomes of second generation immigrants in the US
Höckel, Lisa Sofie - 2017
Die Integration von Migranten im Aufnahmeland ist stark mit deren Erfolg am Arbeitsmarkt verbunden. Für letzteres … kulturellen Werten auf die Arbeitsmarktpartizipation von Migranten bisher jedoch kaum untersucht. Daher analysiert dieses Papier … den Zusammenhang zwischen kollektivistischen Werten im Herkunftsland und der Arbeitsmarktsituation von Migranten der …
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All that glitters is not gold : wages and education for US immigrants
Bertoli, Simone; Stillman, Steven - 2019
Many destination countries consider implementing points-based migration systems as a way to improve migrants' quality … rather than across countries. This suggests that heavily relying on education to select immigrants might fail to markedly …
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