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The impact of immigration on the wage distribution in Switzerland

Favre, Sandro - 2011

Recent immigrants in Switzerland are overrepresented at the top of the wage distribution in high and at the bottom in low skill occupations. Basic economic theory thus suggests that immigration has led to a compression of the wage distribution in the former group and to an expansion in the...

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Earnings differentials between immigrants and natives : the role of occupational attainment

Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Lucifora, Claudio; Pagani, Laura - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-18

This paper brings new evidence to the existing literature on earnings differentials and returns to human capital for immigrants and natives. It is the first paper analysing this topic using data drawn from the Italian Labour Force Survey, a large nationally representative dataset. We show that...

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Wages of childhood immigrants in Sweden : education, returns to education and overeducation

Katz, Katarina; Österberg, Torun - 2013

We analyse full-time monthly wages of employees with parents born in Sweden and of childhood immigrants who arrived before the end of compulsory school-age. We use a detailed disaggregation of background countries, which shows considerable heterogeneity, in overeducation, in returns to education...

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Immigrant earnings profiles in the presence of human capital investment : measuring cohort and macro effects

Green, David A.; Worswick, Christopher - 2004

Considering immigrant earnings in the context of post-arrival human capital investment implies: cohort quality should be defined in terms of the present value of the whole earnings profile; and, an appropriate definition of macro effects is obtained using the earnings profile of the native born...

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Self-employment in China : are rural migrant workers and urban residents alike?

Cui, Yuling; Nahm, Daehoon; Tani, Massimiliano - 2013

This paper studies differences in the motivation to be self-employed between rural migrants and urban residents in …-stage methodology using the 2002 China Household Income Project (CHIP), reveal that rural migrants become self-employed to avoid low … type of employment and residence status) shows that higher hourly wages of paid and self-employed urbanites over migrants …

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The causal effect of deficiency at English on female immigrants' labour market outcomes in the UK

Miranda, Alfonso; Zhu, Yu - 2013

Using the first wave of the UK Household Longitudinal Survey, we investigate the extent to which deficiency at English as measured by English as Additional Language (EAL), contribute to the immigrant-native wage gap for female employees in the UK, after controlling for age, region of residence,...

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The causal effect of deficiency at English on female immigrants' labor market outcomes in the UK

Miranda, Alfonso; Zhu, Yu - 2013

We investigate the extent to which deficiency at English as measured by English as Additional Language (EAL), contribute to the immigrant-native wage gap for female employees in the UK, controlling for covariates. To deal with the endogeneity of EAL and a substantial problem of self-selection...

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Transferability of human capital and immigrant assimilation : an analysis for Germany

Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K.; Kramer, Anica - 2014

This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and in particular labor market...

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Transferability of human capital and immigrant assimilation : an analysis for Germany ; conference paper

Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K.; Kramer, Anica - 2013

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Overeducation among immigrants in Sweden : incidence, wage effects and state dependence

Joona, Pernilla Andersson; Gupta, Nabanita Datta; … - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-23

The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied extensively. Using Swedish register data from 2001 - 2008, we extend the immigrant educational mismatch literature by analyzing incidence, wage effects and state dependence in...

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