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Family matters : the role of the family in immigrants' destination language acquisition
Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
This paper is concerned with the relationship among family members in the determinants of destination language proficiency among immigrants. A model of immigrant language proficiency is augmented to include dynamics among family members. It is tested using data on a sample of recent immigrants....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406913
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The Effect of Product Market Competition on Job Instability
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa - 2011
This paper assesses the impact of product market competition on job instability as proxied by the use of fixed-term labor contracts. Using both worker data from the Spanish Labor Force Survey and firm data from the Spanish Business Strategies Survey, I show that job instability rises with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125476
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Migration Patterns of Serbian and Bosnia and Herzegovina Migrants in Austria: Causes and Consequences
Landesmann, Michael; Mara, Isilda; Vidovic, Hermine - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2013
The study provides new empirical evidence about migration patterns of immigrants from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina … examine migration intentions, distinguishing between temporary and permanent migration plans, human capital formation in the … preference for permanent migration is predominant particularly among BiH and the earlier group of Serbian migrants who moved to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820192
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Profile of earners and remittances in Mexico: a relative deprivation approach
Cuauhtémoc, Calderón Villarreal; Luis, Huesca Reynoso - In: Contaduría y Administración 59 (2014) 3, pp. 11-33
with the process of migration not only for traditional exporting labor regions, but also for the north-border of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010786732
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Language Usage, Participation, Employment and Earnings: Evidence for Foreigners in West Germany with Multiple Sources of Selection
Thomsen, Stephan L.; Gernandt, Johannes; Aldashev, Alisher - 2008
Language proficiency may not only affect the earnings of the individual, but the probability to participate in the … this paper, the effects of language proficiency on earnings are analyzed for foreigners in Germany with joint consideration … find an impact of language ability on earnings thereby implying an indirect effect. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298666
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Migration Patterns of Serbian and Bosnia and Herzegovina Migrants in Austria: Causes and Consequences
Landesmann, Michael; Mara, Isilda; Vidovic, Hermine - 2013
The study provides new empirical evidence about migration patterns of immigrants from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina … examine migration intentions, distinguishing between temporary and permanent migration plans, human capital formation in the … preference for permanent migration is predominant particularly among BiH and the earlier group of Serbian migrants who moved to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012100125
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The income-distance trade-off of migrants young workers (In French)
MAGRINI, Marie-Benoît - Groupement de Recherches Économiques et Sociales (GRES) - 2006
than migration effort should be compensated by job advantages following migration, according to the costs/benefits trade …-off mechanism. Nevertheless some unobservable characteristics could generate higher or lower earnings as well as higher or lower … migration probabilities. By considering migration’s distance of young workers, between the local labor markets at the end of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005395031
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Language Usage, Participation, Employment and Earnings: Evidence for Foreigners in West Germany with Multiple Sources of Selection
Thomsen, Stephan L.; Gernandt, Johannes; Aldashev, Alisher - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
Language proficiency may not only affect the earnings of the individual, but the probability to participate in the … this paper, the effects of language proficiency on earnings are analyzed for foreigners in Germany with joint consideration … find an impact of language ability on earnings thereby implying an indirect effect. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098179
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Language Usage, Participation, Employment and Earnings - Evidence for Foreigners in West Germany with Multiple Sources of Selection
Aldashev, Alisher; Gernandt, Johannes; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2008
Language proficiency may not only affect the earnings of the individual, but the probability to participate in the … this paper, the effects of language proficiency on earnings are analyzed for foreigners in Germany with joint consideration … find an impact of language ability on earnings thereby implying an indirect effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014212568
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Moving from a poor economy to a rich one : the contradictory roles of technology and job tasks
Yashiv, Eran - 2020
. It explicitly addresses the question of what workers newly experience in the richer economy (higher productivity), what … accounting literature, productivity differences in favor of the richer economy, due to differences in TFP and in physical capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012201391