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This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among … married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community Surveys. Among immigrants, better job opportunities, measured by … live in states with a higher divorce rate are more likely to be divorced. Thus, currently being divorced among immigrants …
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This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among … married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community Surveys. Among immigrants, better job opportunities, measured by … live in states with a higher divorce rate are more likely to be divorced. Thus, currently being divorced among immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149386
discrimination and skill wage inequality in the Chinese labor market. Based on data from the 2014 China Family Panel Studies (CFPSs … industries. We also find employment discrimination resulting from skill differences in state-owned and non-state-owned sectors. A …
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power in relation to education and migratory patterns of minorities. …
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power in relation to education and migratory patterns of minorities. …
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We analyze the process of immigrant selection and occupational outcomes of International Medical Graduates (IMGs) in the US and Canada. We extend the IMG relicensing model of Kugler and Sauer (2005) to incorporate two different approaches to immigrant selection: employer nomination systems and...
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We examine the ability of immigrants to transfer the occupational human capital they acquired prior to immigration. We … immigrants to Canada were employed in source country occupations that typically require high levels of cognitive skills, but rely … and manual skills, these discrepancies are larger among immigrants with limited language fluency. …
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Existing studies show a positive relationship between entrepreneurs' business performance and their conventional human capital as measured by previous business experience and formal education. In this paper, we explore whether illegal entrepreneurship experience (IEE), an unconventional form of...
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Existing studies show a positive relationship between entrepreneurs’ business performance and their conventional human capital as measured by previous business experience and formal education. In this paper, we explore whether illegal entrepreneurship experience (IEE), an unconventional form...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014028873
This chapter reports on the “economics of language” for immigrants—that is, the influence of language on the choice of … destination among international migrants, the determinants among immigrants of destination language proficiency, and the labor … market consequences of that proficiency, as expressed in their earnings. Immigrants tend to take language differences across …
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