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The Impact of Missionary Type on the English Language Proficiency and Earnings of Immigrants

Larsen, Nick - 2015

This paper analyzes the impact of missionary activity on English language proficiency and labor market earnings of all immigrants to the United States by using the pooled files of the American Community Survey (2005-09). We consider the colonial heritage of the origin country to determine if it...

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The Returns to English-Language Skills in India

Azam, Mehtabul - 2010

India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has …-language skills in India, but the extent of these returns is unknown due to lack of a microdata set containing measures of both … earnings and English ability. In this paper, we use a newly available data set - the India Human Development Survey, 2005 - to …

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Russian Jewish Immigrants in the United States : The Adjustment of Their English Language Proficiency and Earnings in the American Community Survey

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2012

Compared to other immigrants to the United States, recent Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union have achieved high levels of English language proficiency and earnings. They experience disadvantages in both dimensions at arrival, but because of steeper improvements with duration in the...

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Returns to Foreign Language Skills in a Developing Country : The Case of Turkey

Di Paolo, Antonio - 2014

Foreign language skills represent a form of human capital that can be rewarded in the labor market. Drawing on data from the Adult Education Survey of 2007, this is the first study estimating returns to foreign language skills in Turkey. We contribute to the literature on the economic value of...

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Earnings, Schooling and Economic Reform : Econometric Evidence from Hungary (1986-2004)

Campos, Nauro; Jolliffe, Dean - 2007

How does the relationship between earnings and schooling change with the introduction of comprehensive economic reform? This paper sheds light on this question using a unique data set and procedure to reduce sample selection bias. Our evidence is from consistently coded, non-retrospective data...

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Why Didn't the College Premium Rise Everywhere? Employment Protection and On-the-Job Investment in Skills

Doepke, Matthias - 2020

Why has the college wage premium risen rapidly in the United States since the 1980s, but not in European economies such as Germany? We argue that differences in employment protection can account for much of the gap. We develop a model in which firms and workers make relationship-specific...

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Access to Higher Education and Inequality : The Chinese Experiment

Wang, Xiaojun - 2009

We apply a semi-parametric latent variable model to estimate selection and sorting effects on the evolution of private returns to schooling for college graduates during China's reform between 1988 and 2002. We find that there were substantial sorting gains under the traditional system, but they...

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The Winner Takes it All : Internal Migration, Education and Wages in Ethiopia

Blunch, Niels-Hugo - 2015

Previous studies of migration have mainly examined international dynamics. Yet, internal migration is an important issue, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using the 2001 Ethiopia Child Labor Survey, a nationally representative household survey, this paper examines internal migration in...

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Job Contact Networks and Wages of Rural-Urban Migrants in China

Long, Wenjin - 2013

In nationally representative household data from the 2008 wave of the Rural to Urban Migration in China survey, nearly two thirds of rural-urban migrants found their employment through family members, relatives, friends or acquaintances. This paper investigates why the use of social network to...

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The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement

Hanushek, Eric Alan - 2010

An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...

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