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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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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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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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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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Essays on the heterogeneity of immigrant groups in the United States : testable implications using human capital theory
Cortes, Kalena E. - 2002
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The elusive concept of immigrant quality : evidence from 1970 - 1990
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2002
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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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Heterogeneity and wage inequalities over the life cycle
Magnac, Thierry; Roux, Sébastien - 2019 - This version: 30 September 2019
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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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Who pays for general training? : new evidence for British men and women
Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2002
forms of work-related training received by men and women over the period 1998-2000, and to estimate their impact on wages … estimate the impact of training - controlling for its financing method - on wages levels and wages growth. We find that … employer-financed training increases wages both in the current and future firms, with some evidence that the impact in future …
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