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Matching Language Proficiency to Occupation : The Effect on Immigrants' Earnings

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2007

This paper analyzes the effect on earnings of the matching of English language skills to occupational requirements. It uses data from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) database and a quot;Realized Matchesquot; procedure to quantify expected levels of English skills in each of over 500...

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Affirmative Action and University Fit : Evidence from Proposition 209

Arcidiacono, Peter - 2012

, graduation rates of minorities increased by 4.4%. We characterize conditions required for better matching of students to campuses … graduation gains experienced by less-prepared students. At the same time, better matching only explains about 20% of the overall … graduation rate increase. Changes after Prop 209 in the selectivity of enrolled students explains 34-50% of the increase. Finally …

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Does the Choice of Reference Levels of Education Matter in the Oru Earnings Equation?

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2009

This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation/under-education (ORU) literature are sensitive to whether the usual or reference levels of education are measured using the Realized Matches or Worker Self-Assessment methods. The...

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Gender Differentials in the Payoff to Schooling in China

Ren, Vivian - 2010

This paper examines the gender differential in the payoff to schooling in China. The analyses are conducted separately for rural and urban areas, and are based on a framework provided by the over education/required education/under education literature, and the decomposition developed by Chiswick...

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The Effects of School Quality in the Origin on the Payoff to Schooling for Immigrants

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2010

The payoff to schooling among the foreign born in the US is only around one-half of the payoff for the native born. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The paper uses the Over-education/ Required...

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An Explanation for the Lower Payoff to Schooling for Immigrants in the Canadian Labour Market

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2009

This paper examines the difference between the payoffs to schooling for immigrants and the native born in Canada, using 2001 Census data. Analyses are presented for males and females. Comparisons are offered with findings for the US. The paper uses the Overeducation/Required...

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Education, Health and Wages

Heckman, James J. - 2014

This paper develops and estimates a model with multiple schooling choices that identifies the causal effect of different levels of schooling on health, health-related behaviors, and labor market outcomes. We develop an approach that is a halfway house between a reduced form treatment effect...

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Returns to Education : The Causal Effects of Education on Earnings, Health and Smoking

Heckman, James J. - 2016

This paper estimates returns to education using a dynamic model of educational choice that synthesizes approaches in the structural dynamic discrete choice literature with approaches used in the reduced form treatment effect literature. It is an empirically robust middle ground between the two...

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Recovering Ex Ante Returns and Preferences for Occupations Using Subjective Expectations Data

Arcidiacono, Peter - 2014

We show that data on subjective expectations, especially on outcomes from counterfactual choices and choice probabilities, are a powerful tool in recovering ex ante treatment effects as well as preferences for different treatments. In this paper we focus on the choice of occupation, and use...

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Changes Across Cohorts in Wage Returns to Schooling and Early Work Experiences

Ashworth, Jared - 2018

This paper investigates the wage returns to schooling and actual early work experiences, and how these returns have changed over the past twenty years. Using the NLSY surveys, we develop and estimate a dynamic model of the joint schooling and work decisions that young men make in early...

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