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Do Enclaves Matter in Immigrant Adjustment?
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
effect of concentrations on the immigrant’s language skills, as well as the effects on immigrant earnings of destination … language skills. Moreover, immigrant’s earnings are lower the lower their English-language proficiency and the greater the … adult male immigrants from non-English speaking countries. Linguistic concentrations reduce the immigrant’s own English …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566803
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Enclaves, language and the location choice of migrants
Bauer, Thomas K.; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2002
Empirical studies in the migration literature have shown that migration enclaves (networks) negatively affect the language proficiency of migrants. These studies, however, ignore the choice of location as a function of language skills. Using data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412790
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A note on measures of human capital for immigrants: examining the American Community Survey and New Immigrant Survey
Akee, Randall K. Q.; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2008
In this paper we examine whether where one acquires their human capital matters in earnings regressions. We focus on a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270629
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A Note on Measures of Human Capital for Immigrants: Examining the American Community Survey and New Immigrant Survey
Akee, Randall K. Q.; Yuksel, Mutlu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
In this paper we examine whether where one acquires their human capital matters in earnings regressions. We focus on a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822313
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Human Capital Investment under Exit Options: Evidence from a Natural Quasi-Experiment
Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A. - 2019
Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005874
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Human capital investment under exit options : evidence from a natural quasi-experiment
Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A. - 2019
Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985775
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Assessing the Impact of Remittances on Schooling: the Mexican Experience
Borraz, Fernando - In: Global Economy Journal 5 (2007) 1, pp. 9-9
Woodruff (2003) the results obtained from Census data indicate a positive and small effect of remittances on schooling only for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005246568
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A Macro-Level Analysis of Adult-Age Language Learning
Uebelmesser, Silke - 2017
This article investigates the macro-level drivers of adult-age language learning. We construct a new dataset that covers German language learning in 77 countries (including Germany) for 1992-2006. Fixed-effects regressions show that language learning in the EU is strongly associated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952480
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Language Skills and Immigrant Adjustment : What Immigration Policy Can Do!
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2021
This study provides an account of the dynamics of the dominant language adjustment process among immigrants in … Australia using the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia, which comprises two cohorts of immigrants that arrived in …, the visa class under which the immigrants entered Australia is known from administrative records. Second, between the two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318857
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A macro-level analysis of adult-age language learning
Übelmesser, Silke; Weingarten, Severin - 2017
This article investigates the macro-level drivers of adult-age language learning. We construct a new dataset that covers German language learning in 77 countries (including Germany) for 1992-2006. Fixed-effects regressions show that language learning in the EU is strongly associated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663341