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1950s/early 1960s greatly expanded the research on education and income and shifted the focus to wages. The human capital … estimating the returns to education and experience. Recent analyses of education and wages have built on this foundation and have …This chapter discusses the large literature and numerous issues regarding education-related differences in income in …
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This paper studies the occupational selection among generations of immigrants in the United States and links their choices to the occupational wage distribution in their country of origin. The empirical results suggest that individuals are more likely to take up an occupation in the US that was...
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are considered include age, education, gender, family structure, costs of migration, linguistic distance, duration in the …
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criteria can ration visas on one or more characteristics that enhance labor market earnings (e.g., education), or on …
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education wage premiums with reference to two related explanations for changing U.S. employment patterns: (i) a shift away from … Population Survey suggest that both factors have contributed to the flattening of higher education wage premiums. …
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We examine whether the benefits of high school work experience have changed over the last 20 years by comparing effects for the 1979 and 1997 cohorts of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Our main specifications suggest that the future wage benefits of working 20 hours per week in the...
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endogeneity and measurement error. We find significantly positive returns to language skills and demonstrate that education is an … important channel through which language skills affect wages of child migrants. Although the returns of adult migrants do not … depend on education, we find that child and adult migrants exhibit similar returns to language skills …
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I examine the effect of English language proficiency on the occupational choices of childhood immigrants into the United States. In particular, I focus on the annual earnings and skills composition associated with immigrants' chosen occupations. Following Bleakley and Chin (2004; 2010), I use an...
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endogeneity and measurement error. We find significantly positive returns to language skills and demonstrate that education is an … important channel through which language skills affect wages of child migrants. Although the returns of adult migrants do not … depend on education, we find that child and adult migrants exhibit similar returns to language skills …
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-employment ; returns to education ; performance ; personal control ; locus of control ; human capital ; wages ; incomes …How valuable is education for entrepreneurs' performance as compared to employees'? What might explain any differences …? And does education affect peoples' occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of …
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