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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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The returns to school-quality-adjusted education of immigrants in Germany

Quang, Huy Le; Vallizadeh, Ehsan - In: Journal for labour market research 56 (2022) 1, pp. 1-15

This paper explores the role of school quality in immigrants' home countries on their earnings in Germany, using native Germans as a benchmark. We propose an empirical analysis that highlights two important insights. First, there is a substantial gap in the returns to education between natives...

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How Much Did Immigrant "Quality" Decline in Late Nineteenth Century America?

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2001

Early twentieth century observers argued that recent American immigrants were inferior, and in particular less skilled, than the old. I estimate wage equations for 1909 allowing for different effects by nationality and for different characteristics on arrival. I then apply the estimated wage...

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Endowment or discrimination? : An analysis of immigrant-native earnings differentials in Switzerland

Golder, Stefan M. - 2000

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Endowment or discrimination? : an analysis of immigrant-native earnings differentials in Switzerland

Golder, Stefan M. - 2000

Recent studies have shown that there are significant earnings differentials between immigrants and natives in Switzerland. The goal of this paper is to determine whether these differences can be attributed to diverging socio-economic endowments or to discrimination. We use the well-known...

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Human capital quality and the immigrant wage gap

Coulombe, Serge; Grenier, Gilles; Nadeau, Serge J. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-22

We propose a new methodology for analyzing determinants of the wage gap between immigrants and natives. A Mincerian regression framework is extended to include GDP per capita in an immigrant's country of birth as a proxy for the quality of schooling and work experience acquired in that country....

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Wage and Occupational Assimilation by Skill Level

Alcobendas, Miguel - 2012

its severe dual labor market, and an unprecedented immigration boom, Spain presents a quite unique experience to analyze … assimilation pattern for low- versus high-skilled immigrants in Spain: our key finding is that having a high-school degree does not …

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Endogenous assimilation and immigrant adjustment in longitudinal data

Beenstock, Michael (contributor); … - 2005

We create a longitudinal data set by matching immigrants in Israel's censuses for 1983 and 1995. These panel data reject the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis (IAH), which predicts that immigrants with shorter durations in 1983 should have experienced faster earnings growth between 1983 and...

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Earnings gap, cohort effect and economic assimilation of immigrants from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in the United States

Lin, Carl - 2013

mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan (CHT) in the U.S. labor market. Since 1990, relative wages of CHT migrants have been … education. Rising U.S.-earned degrees by CHT migrants can account for this relatively successful economic assimilation. Cohort … analysis shows that the economic performance of CHT migrants admitted to the U.S. has been improving, even allowing for the …

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Returns to citizenship? : Evidence from Germany's recent immigration reforms

Gathmann, Christina; Keller, Nicolas - 2014

Immigrants in many countries have lower employment rates and lower earnings than natives. In this paper, we ask whether a more liberal access to citizenship can improve the economic integration of immigrants. Our analysis relies on two major immigration reforms in Germany, a country with a...

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