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Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2014

This article summarizes three different strands of the literature that address the labor market effects of language … ongoing globalization leads to an increased demand for foreign language proficiency to reduce search and information costs and … migrants, destination language skills display both a prerequisite for and outcome of successful integration. Investments into …

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A historical note on the assimilation rates of foreign-born men and women in the U.S.

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Dowhan, Dan; Liu, Xingfei; … - 2025

The 1924 Immigration Act excluded immigrants from economically developing countries to the point of their near total exclusion. Forty years later, the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act eliminated most discriminatory county-of-origin barriers. America's doors opened and immigration from...

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A historical note on the assimilation rates of foreign-born women in the U.S.

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Dowhan, Dan; Liu, Xingfei - 2023

Using historical, longitudinal data on individuals, we track the earnings of immigrant and U.S.-born women. Following individuals, instead of synthetic cohorts, avoids biases in earnings-growth estimates caused by compositional changes in the cohorts that are followed. The historical data...

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A historical note on the assimilation rates of foreign-born men and women in the U.S.

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Dowhan, Dan; Liu, Xingfei; … - 2025

Fueling debates about the "quality" of immigrants from economically developing countries, empirical studies based on a well-respected methodology conclude that post-1965 immigrant men have low initial earnings and sluggish earnings growth. This methodology is based on flawed assumptions (Duleep,...

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The complementarity of language and other human capital : immigrant earnings in Canada

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 … complementarity between language skills and both schooling and preimmigration experience. That is, greater proficiency in the official … languages enhances the effects on earnings of schooling and pre-immigration labor market experience. Language proficiency and …

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The complementarity of language and other human capital : immigrant earnings in Canada

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

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

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2021

This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 … complementarity between language skills and both schooling and pre-immigration experience. That is, greater proficiency in the … official languages enhances the effects on earnings of schooling and pre-immigration labor market experience. Language …

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The intergenerational transmission of human capital and earnings in contemporary Russia

Borisov, Gleb V.; Pissaridēs, Christophoros A. - 2016

We make use of longitudinal data for the Russian economy over 1994-2013 to obtain earnings and education information about parents and children. We estimate the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment and earning capacity and find high intergenerational correlation of earnings...

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The dynamics of return migration, human capital accumulation, and wage assimilation

Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2021

This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model where individuals differ in ability and location preference to evaluate the mechanisms that affect the evolution of immigrants' careers in conjunction with their re-migration plans. Our analysis highlights a novel form of selective return...

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The dynamics of return migration, human capital accumulation, and wage assimilation

Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2021

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