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We use Woodcock Johnson III child assessment data in the New Immigrant Survey to examine language assimilation and test score bias among children of Hispanic immigrants. Our identification strategy exploits the test language randomization (Spanish or English) to quantitatively measure the degree...
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Restricting immigration to young and skilled immigrants using a point system, as in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand …
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cohort (made possible by the data for the first time since 1961), black immigration from Africa and the Americas, skin …, and that immigration, by introducing accomplished black immigrants from Africa (notably via the visa lottery), threatens …
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cohort (made possible by the data for the first time since 1961), black immigration from Africa and the Americas, skin …, and that immigration, by introducing accomplished black immigrants from Africa (notably via the visa lottery), threatens …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246709
We use Woodcock Johnson III child assessment data in the New Immigrant Survey to examine language assimilation and test score bias among children of Hispanic immigrants. Our identification strategy exploits the test language randomization (Spanish or English) to quantitatively measure the degree...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325125
effect estimates show that the restrictive immigration policy has had an adverse impact on the quality of prospective … restrictive immigration policy disproportionately discourages high-ability international students from attending US schools. Our …. -- Skilled immigration ; H-1B visa ; college education ; SAT scores …
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We examine a little-known restriction on high-skill immigration to the United States, the Exchange Visitor Skills List …
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northern, western and southern European countries. Only Ireland stands out strongly here with very highly qualified immigration … be aimed at strengthening employment and education immigration, where the qualification level of the immigrants can be …
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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...
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New Zealand immigration policy settings are based on the assumption that the macroeconomic impacts of immigration may … are possible. Reviewing the literature, the balance of evidence suggests that while past immigration has, at times, had … significant net benefits, over the past couple of decades the positive effects of immigration on per capita growth, productivity …
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