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This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with proficiency in the official languages (English and...
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-contained chapters that contribute to the understanding of the performance of migrants in the host society and the impact of migrants on … decades, it is important to know both how migrants integrate into the destination countries and how immigration affects …. Die Arbeit besteht aus vier eigenständigen Kapiteln, die Erkenntnisse zur Integration von Migranten und den Auswirkungen …
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The purpose of this paper is to study the immigrant performance in France and the impacts on the natives by drawing on …. In France of 2000, there remains a significant gap between policy goals and outcomes, indicating that integration through … market. Lastly, there is substantial need for further studies on immigrants in France …
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This paper explores the role of school quality in immigrants' home countries on their earnings in Germany, using native … gap in the returns to education between natives and immigrants in Germany, especially when we consider the quality of … explaining the imperfect transferability of human capital of immigrants in Germany. …
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We estimate the effect of language training on subsequent employment and wages of immigrants under essential heterogeneity. The identifying variation is based on regional differences in language training availability that we use to instrument endogenous participation. Estimating marginal...
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). First, we find that educational attainment and language proficiency have a higher return in the Netherlands than in Germany … of labour migrants and their partners. The improvement is largely due to an improvement in educational attainment and …, while for Germany we find a negative relation with tenured employment. The contrasting results on tenured employment may be …
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Germany and the Netherlands. We compare labour market outcomes of Turkish immigrants, including both the first and second … large for Germany. Differences in past immigration policies between Germany and the Netherlands are likely to be important …
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capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that … returns than human capital obtained in Germany. We further find evidence for heterogeneity in the returns to human capital of …
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capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that … returns than human capital obtained in Germany. We further find evidence for heterogeneity in the returns to human capital of …
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international (and internal) migrants, both in terms of the ease of obtaining proficiency in the destination language and access to … linguistic enclaves, (2) the determinants of destination language proficiency among international migrants, based on a model (the …, Canada, Australia, the UK, Germany, Israel and Spain. …
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