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Immigrant selection systems and occupational outcomes of international medical graduates in Canada and the United States

McDonald, James Ted; Warman, Casey; Worswick, Christopher - 2011

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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Do foreigners crowd natives out of STEM degrees and occupations? : evidence from the U.S. immigration act of 1990

Ransom, Tyler; Winters, John V. - 2016

This paper examines effects of the U.S. Immigration Act of 1990 on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and … STEM flows. We find that the Immigration Act changed natives' skill investment and utilization in three ways: (1) it pushed …

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Immigration and trade creation for the US : the role of immigrant occupation

Mundra, Kusum - 2012

varies with the immigrants' occupation. Using a sample of 63 U.S. trading partners which are also big immigrant sending … countries over the years 1991-2000, this paper finds that the immigrant trade elasticity for the no occupation group is similar … occupation significantly increases the trade elasticity for Rauch's referenced price and differentiated commodities and this …

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Earnings differentials between immigrants and natives : the role of occupational attainment

Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Lucifora, Claudio; Pagani, Laura - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-18

natives and that there is no return to pre-immigration work experience, suggesting imperfect transferability of human capital …

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Education and self-employment : South Asian immigrants in the US labor market

Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal; Roy, Sanjukta - 2014

immigration in the United States (using IPUMS Data), which the related literature has clearly neglected thus far despite long …% less chance of being self-employed than one without. In addition, we show that factors such as longer stay in USA and being …

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Persistent occupational hierarchies among immigrant worker groups in the United States labor market

Postepska, Agnieszka; Vella, Francis - 2017

This paper examines the phenomenon of occupational hierarchies among immigrant labor groups in the United States. Using census data for 1940-2011 we document the persistent ranking of immigrant labor groups in major metropolitan areas reflected by their position in the empirical distribution of...

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Does the choice of reference levels of education matter in the ORU earnings equation?

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

, by level of skill, and by occupation. While point estimates differ, particularly when earnings equations are estimated …

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Substitution between individual and source country characteristics : social capital, culture, and US labor market outcomes among immigrant women

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2015 - Revised June 2014

Using the New Immigrant Survey, we investigate the impact of immigrant women’s own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country on their labor supply and wages in the US. Women migrating from higher female labor supply countries work more in the US. Most of...

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Trends in the returns to social assimilation : earnings premiums among U.S. immigrants that marry natives

Furtado, Delia; Song, Tao - 2014

Previous studies show that immigrants married to natives earn higher wages than immigrants married to other immigrants. Using data from the 1980-2000 U.S. censuses and the 2005- 2010 American Community Surveys, we show that these wage premiums have increased over time. Our evidence suggests that...

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Consequences of immigrating during a recession : evidence from the US Refugee Resettlement program

Mask, Joshua - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1/21, pp. 1-31

Are there long-term labor consequences in migrating to the US during a recession? For most immigrants, credibly estimating this effect is difficult because of selective migration. Some immigrants may not move if economic conditions are not favorable. However, identification is possible for...

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