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The Labor Market Effects of English Language Proficiency : Communication Skills and the Occupational Choice of Childhood Immigrants to the United States

Hlavac, Marek - 2013

I examine the effect of English language proficiency on the occupational choices of childhood immigrants into the United States. In particular, I focus on the annual earnings and skills composition associated with immigrants' chosen occupations. Following Bleakley and Chin (2004; 2010), I use an...

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Complements or Substitutes? Task Specialization by Gender and Nativity in Spain

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina - 2009

Learning about the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives is a topic of major concern for immigrant-receiving countries. There exists an extensive literature evaluating the impact of immigration on the employment and wages of natives in the U.S. Yet, despite the...

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The Performance of Immigrants in the German Labor Market

Beyer, Robert - 2017

This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...

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The Supply of Foreign Talent : How Skill-Biased Technology Drives the Skill Mix of Immigrants Evidence From Switzerland 1990– 2010

Beerli, Andreas - 2019

An important goal of immigration policy is facilitating the entry and supply of workers whose skills are scarce in national labour markets. In recent decades, the introduction of information and communication technology [ICT] fuelled the demand for highly skilled workers at the expense of lower...

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The performance of immigrants in the German labor market

Beyer, Robert - 2017

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Selection Criteria and the Skill Composition of Immigrants : A Comparative Analysis of Australian and U.S. Employment Immigration

Jasso, Guillermina; Rosenzweig, Mark R. - 2021

. (4) Within a sending country, Australia attracts less total but higher-skill migrants than does the United States. This … composition of employment migrants. There is no evidence that the differences in the selection mechanism used to screen employment … migrants in the two countries play a significant role in affecting the characteristics of skill migration …

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ORU analyses of immigrant earnings in Australia, with international comparisons

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation/required education/undereducation (ORU) framework (Hartog, 2000) and a decomposition of the native-born/foreign-born differential in the payoff to schooling developed by Chiswick and Miller...

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Convergence or divergence? : immigrant wage assimilation patterns in Germany

Zibrowius, Michael - 2011

Using a rich German panel data set, I estimate wage assimilation patterns for immigrants in Germany. This study contributes to the literature by performing separate estimations by skill groups and controlling for a wide range of socio-economic background variables. It aims to answer the question...

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Estimating immigrant earnings profiles when migrations are temporary

Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2016

The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many - if not most - migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...

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Receiving countries' perspectives : the case of Sweden

Gerdes, Christer; Wadensjö, Eskil - 2014

Sweden has made its labour market more open for labour immigration since the mid1990s: becoming member of the common labour market of EES/EU in 1994, no transitional rules introduced at the enlargement of European Union in 2004 and 2007, and opening up for labour migration from non-EES/EU...

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