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How the earnings growth of U.S. immigrants was underestimated
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark C. - 2021
Two radically different descriptions of immigrant earnings trajectories in the U.S. have emerged. One asserts that immigrant men following the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act have low initial earnings and high earnings growth. Another asserts that post-1965 immigrants have low initial...
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Country of origin, earnings convergence, and human capital investment : a new method for the analysis of U.S. immigrant economic assimilation
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark C. - 2018
The initial earnings of U.S. immigrants vary enormously by country of origin. Via three interrelated analyses, we show earnings convergence across source countries with time in the United States. Human-capital theory plausibly explains the inverse relationship between initial earnings and...
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STEM graduates, human capital externalities, and wages in the US
Winters, John V. - 2013
-STEM fields on the wages of other workers in the same metropolitan area. I find that both types of college graduates create …
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The impact of juvenile conviction on human capital and labor market outcomes
Golan, Limor; Hai, Rong; Wabiszewski, Hayley - 2021
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The elusive concept of immigrant quality : evidence from 1970 - 1990
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2002
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The elusive concept of immigrant quality : evidence from 1970-1990
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2002
The labor market "quality" of immigrants is a subject of debate among immigration researchers, and a major public policy concern. However, traditional methods of measuring human capital are particularly difficult to apply to recently arrived immigrants. Many factors that have a negative effect...
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Locus of control and investment in training
Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Seitz, Helke; … - 2016
control, while we do not find any relationship in the case of specific training. Actual post-training wages for those who …
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Locus of control and investment in training
Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Seitz, Helke; … - 2016
control, while we do not find any relationship in the case of specific training. Actual post-training wages for those who …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594543
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Heterogeneity and wage inequalities over the life cycle
Magnac, Thierry; Roux, Sébastien - 2019 - This version: 30 September 2019
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Estimating the returns to schooling using cohort-level maternal education as an instrument
Winters, John V. - 2014
Community Survey to examine the effect of formal schooling on worker wages. Given the potential endogeneity of education … censuses. The instrumental variables results suggest that schooling has a significant positive effect on worker wages …. Specifically, an additional year or schooling is estimated to increase hourly wages by 10 percent for men and 12.6 percent for …
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