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The effects of school quality in the origin on the payoff to schooling for immigrants
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2010
The payoff to schooling among the foreign born in the US is only around one-half of the payoff for the native born. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The paper uses the Over-education/ Required...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688727
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Student labour and academic proficiency in international perspective
Post, David; Pong, Suet-ling - In: International labour review 148 (2009) 1/2, pp. 93-122
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003862445
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Transition of International STEM Students to the US Labor Market : The Role of Visa Policy
Demirci, Murat - 2020
This study analyzes how visa policies affect international students' transition to the U.S. labor market after the … completion of their studies. The Optional Practical Training (OPT) program permits international students to work in the United … process due to the binding visa cap. This study finds that the extension in the length of OPT terms for international students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012849560
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Cross-Country Inequality Trends
Acemoglu, Daron - 2003
The economics profession has made considerable progress in understanding the increase in wage inequality in the U.S. and the UK over the past several decades, but currently lacks a consensus on why inequality did not increase, or increased much less, in (continental) Europe over the same time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014119494
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The price of experience
Jeong, Hyeok; Kim, Yong; Manovskii, Iourii - 2012
We identify a key role of factor supply, driven by demographic changes, in shaping several empirical regularities that are a focus of active research in macro and labor economics. In particular, the large movements of the return to experience over the last four decades are almost perfectly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683488
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The fate of the international student bread winners in the hands of international independent and private colleges : a case study
Er, Mevliyar - In: International journal of education economics and development 3 (2012) 3, pp. 205-216
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Antecedents to international student inflows to UK higher education : a comparative analysis
Zheng, Ping - In: Journal of business research : JBR 67 (2014) 2, pp. 136-143
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Global wage inequality and the international flow of migrants
Rosenzweig, Mark Richard - 2010
A framework for understanding the determinants in the variation in the pricing of skills across countries and the model underlying the Mincer specification of wages that is used widely to estimate the relationship between schooling and wages are described. A method for identifying skill prices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008658507
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Trade and inequality in Europe and the US
Dorn, David; Levell, Peter - 2021
The share of low-income countries in global exports nearly tripled between 1990 and 2015, driven largely by the rapid emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012745407
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Global Wage Inequality and the International Flow of Migrants
Rosenzweig, Mark R. - 2010
A framework for understanding the determinants in the variation in the pricing of skills across countries and the model underlying the Mincer specification of wages that is used widely to estimate the relationship between schooling and wages are described. A method for identifying skill prices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014198824