Immigrant earnings: Language skills, linguistic concentrations and the business cycle

By Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller. 2002

557 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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How researchers see this paper

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Paul W. Miller
2. Barry R. Chiswick
3. B. Lancee
4. Frank van Tubergen
5. Nina Smith
6. Leif Husted
7. Helena Skyt Nielsen
8. M. Rosholm

In Sociology and Political Science

1. B. Lancee
2. Paul W. Miller
3. Barry R. Chiswick
4. Frank van Tubergen
5. Nina Smith
6. Agnieszka Kanas
7. Klaus F. Zimmermann
8. M. Rosholm

Citations in the corpus

• Why is the Payoff to Schooling Smaller for Immigrants? (2008, unknown): “Thus, analyses of 1970 Census data (Chiswick (1978)) and of 1980 Census data (Chiswick and Miller (1992)) revealed an elasticity greater than unity, and analyses of 1990 Census data (Chiswick and Miller (2002)) revealed an elasticity slightly below unity.”
• Employment and Wage Assimilation of Male First Generation Immigrants in Denmark (2001, background): “The effect of the overall tightness of the labour market may be a short-term effect which disappears over time, or it may be a long-term effect that follows the individual during the whole labour market career, see for instance Chiswick, Cohen and Zach (1997) and Chiswick and Miller (1999).”
• Immigrants’ Sense of Belonging to the Host Country: The Role of Life Satisfaction, Language Proficiency, and Religious Motives (2015, background): “Native language proficiency plays a central role in the integration of the immigrant in the new labor market and his/her ability to narrow economic gaps with the natives (Chiswick 2002).”
• International Migration and the Economics of Language (2014, methodology): “Among the many studies using census data are Chiswick and Miller (2002) and Bleakley and Chin (2004).”
• The economic returns of bonding and bridging social capital for immigrant men in Germany (2012, background): “The argument for the need for host-country specific capital is predominantly made with respect to human capital, such as educational attainment and language proficiency (Chiswick and Miller 2002).”
• Migration in an Enlarged EU: A Challenging Solution? (2009, background): “Negative wage effects of immigrants on their co-ethnics in the same linguistic group are reported by Chiswick and Miller (2002).”
• The Economic Returns of Immigrants’ Bonding and Bridging Social Capital: The Case of the Netherlands 1 (2010, background): “The argument of the need for host-country specific capital is predominantly made with respect to skills, such as education and language proficiency (Chiswick and Miller 2002; Kanas and Van Tubergen 2009).”
• Immigrants in a Booming Economy: Analysing Their Earnings and Welfare Dependence (2007, unknown): “Chiswick and Miller (2002) focus on the language fluency in their analysis of U.S. immigrant earnings.”
• The Impact of Origin and Host Country Schooling on the Economic Performance of Immigrants (2009, background): “There is ample support in the literature that immigrants who acquire the host-country language significantly improve their economic opportunities (e.g., Chiswick and Miller 1995, 2002).”