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This paper explores the impact of Spanish language proficiency on immigrant earnings in Spain using an instrumental …
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This paper brings new evidence to the existing literature on earnings differentials and returns to human capital for …
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. This study uses large national longitudinal datasets to examine cross-cohort trends and within-cohort changes in earnings …-born population. The results show that Canadian-educated immigrants on average had much lower earnings than the Canadian …-born population but higher earnings than foreign-educated immigrants both in the short run and in the long run. However, Canadian …
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of immigrants. We look at the level of earnings as one of the indicators of their integration process. Additionally, we … to the statistically significant effects of migrant networks on migrants' earnings. …
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cohorts of Mexicans and Central Americans by comparing their earnings and employment probability to those of natives with … similar age and education. We find that, on average, these immigrants started with an earnings gap of 40-45% and eliminated … they had smaller initial earnings gaps and faster convergence. Additionally, the most recent cohorts entered the United …
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This article unravels the migrants' incidence of skill mismatch taking into consideration different migration flows … destination combinations, which allows for detailed analysis of different migration flows. This provides an innovative multi …
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employment and earnings effects and sometimes in large, positive effects on productivity and scale. Foreign ownership usually has … employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally shows these forces to be offsetting, usually resulting in small …
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This paper analyzes the self-selection patterns among Mexican return migrants during the period 1990–2010. To calculate the selection patterns, we nonparametrically estimate the counterfactual wages that the return migrants would have experienced had they never migrated by using the wage...
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Recent evidence suggests that aid induces migration. This result is nevertheless not very informative from a policy … perspective since what counts in terms of welfare consequences is the composition of migration. In this paper we focus on … education and study which of skilled or unskilled migration is more sensitive to aid. More specifically we investigate the …
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