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Are Immigrants Favorably Self-Selected? An Economic Analysis

Chiswick, Barry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

the primary focus is on international migration, reference is made to internal migration and return migration. The … favorable selectivity is more intense the greater the out-of-pocket (direct) costs of migration and return migration, the … greater the effect of the higher level of ability on lowering the costs of migration, and the smaller the relative skill …

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High Skilled Immigration in the International Arena

Chiswick, Barry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This conceptual paper, prepared for a United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Migration and Development, is concerned … historical background of high-skilled international migration, the paper examines the reasons for the recent growth in demand for … high-skilled workers in the technologically advanced nations. If then examines the impact of high-skilled migration on the …

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Occupational Choice of High Skilled Immigrants in the United States

Chiswick, Barry R.; Taengnoi, Sarinda - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper explores the impact of English language proficiency and country of origin on the occupational choice of high-skilled immigrants in the U.S. using the 2000 Census. The findings reveal that high-skilled immigrants with limited proficiency in English, or whose mother tongue is...

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The Complementarity of Language and Other Human Capital: Immigrant Earnings in Canada

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

proficiency and post-migration experience appear to be substitutes, that is, those with greater proficiency have a smaller effect …

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Longitudinal Analysis of Immigrant Occupational Mobility: A Test of the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Using an immigrant assimilation framework, this paper develops a model of the occupational mobility of immigrants and tests the hypotheses using data on adult males from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia. The theoretical model generates hypotheses regarding a U-shaped pattern of...

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International Migration and the Economics of Language

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper provides a review of the research on the ‘economics of language' as applied to international migration. Its … are considered include age, education, gender, family structure, costs of migration, linguistic distance, duration in the … destination, return migration, and ethnic enclaves, among others. Analyses are reported for the immigrant experiences in the US …

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Negative and Positive Assimilation By Prices and By Quantities

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper considers the labor market assimilation of immigrants in terms of earnings and employment (employment probability, unemployment probability, and hours worked per week). Using the 2006 Australian Census of Population and Housing the analyses are performed separately by gender, and...

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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.; Larsen, Nicholas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

immigrant population. The Russian Jewish migration is a mass migration influenced, in part, by refugee motivations. This leads …

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Are There Gender and Country of Origin Differences in Immigrant Labor Market Outcomes across European Destinations?

Adsera, Alicia; Chiswick, Barry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

The paper uses the 1994-2000 waves of the European Community Household Panel to conduct a systematic analysis of the earnings of immigrants as compared to native workers, in particular to test whether there is any systematic variation in the labor market performance of immigrants across gender...

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Endogenous Assimilation and Immigrant Adjustment in Longitudinal Data

Beenstock, Michael; Chiswick, Barry R.; Paltiel, Ari - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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