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Family-friendly and human-capital-based immigration policy : Shifting the focus from immigrants’ initial earnings to their propensity to invest in human capital
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2017
Immigrants who start with low earnings, such as family-based immigrants, experience higher earnings growth than immigrants who are recruited for specific jobs (employment-based immigrants). This occurs because family-based immigrants with lower initial earnings invest in human capital at higher...
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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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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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Revisiting the relationship between ability and sheepskin effects of schooling on individual earnings : the case of Pakistan
Shabbir, Tayyeb - In: Pakistan journal of commerce and social sciences 12 (2018) 2, pp. 419-442
Significant amount of recent research continues to produce evidence in support of the presence of sheepskin effects in returns to schooling both for developed and developing countries. However, researchers have not made many attempts to identify or empirically test the possible mechanisms that...
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Human capital and urbanization in the People's Republic of China
Xing, Chunbing - 2016
terms of health, rural-urban migration is selective in that healthy rural residents choose to migrate. Occupational choices … and living conditions are detrimental to migrants' health, however. While migration has a positive effect on migrant …
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Standardized sensitivity analysis in BCA : an education case study
Pradhan, Elina; Jamison, Dean T. - In: Journal of benefit-cost analysis : JBCA 10 (2019), pp. 206-223
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A new macroeconomic measure of human capital with strong empirical links to productivity
Botev, Jarmila; Égert, Balázs; Smidova, Zuzana; … - 2019
measures perform well in regression analysis explaining productivity across OECD countries and over time. In OECD samples …
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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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External returns to higher education in Mexico 2000-2010
Pereira-López, Mariana; Soloaga, Isidro - In: Ensayos : revista de economia 34 (2015) 1, pp. 1-34
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