The Impact of Host-Country Schooling on Earnings: A Study of Male Immigrants in the United States

By B. Bratsberg, J. F. Ragan. 2002

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Have Asian American Men Achieved Labor Market Parity with White Men? (2010, background): “Prior studies find that educational degrees obtained from foreign countries are heavily devalued in the U.S. labor market (Bratsberg and Ragan 2002).”
Immigrant Self-Employment (2009, background): “Furthermore, the knowledge and skills acquired on the job in the host country are presumably more transferable and more compatible with the requirements of the host-country labor market (Bratsberg & Ragan, 2002; Friedberg, 2000; Zeng & Xie, 2004).”
Individual Determinants of Self-Employment Entry – What Do We Really Know? (2013, unknown): “A dominant perspective argues that home-country human capital is a push factor into self-employment (Friedberg, 2000; Bratsberg and Ragan, 2002; Zeng and Xie, 2004; Kanas et al., 2009).”
Social Contacts and the Economic Performance of Immigrants: A Panel Study of Immigrants in Germany 1 (2012, background): “Similarly, research has shown that acquiring host-country credentials and labor market experience facilitates the economic integration of immigrants (e.g., Friedberg, 2000; Bratsberg and Ragan, 2002; Kanas and Van Tubergen, 2009).”
Education, credentials, and immigrant earnings (2008, unknown): “Similarly, Bratsberg and Ragan (2002) and Clark and Jaeger (2002) find significant earnings differentials between immigrants that acquired schooling in the US and those that did not.”
International Migration, Self‐Selection, and the Distribution of Wages: Evidence from Mexico and the United States (2002, background): “Estimated returns to schooling for residents of Mexico are much 14 Bratsberg and Ragan (2002) estimate slightly higher returns to schooling (0.035) for a sample of U.S. immigrant men from any country.”
The Immigrant Wage Differential within and across Establishments (2008, background): “…2003); job tenure attainment (McDonald and Worswick 1998); occupational attainment and mobility (Green 1999; Weiss et al. 2003); and differential returns to foreign sources of schooling and labour market experience (e.g. Friedberg 2000; Bratsberg and Ragan 2002; Aydemir and Skuterud 2005).”
Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation: An Analysis for Germany (2017, unknown): “Because we observe an individual multiple times, there is obviously a violation of independence among observations. We address this issue by clustering the standard errors at the individual level. (4)Excluded from this category are Mexico (which is not a high-income OECD country as based on the Worl”
The Employment Experience of Refugees in the Netherlands (2010, unknown): “However, researchers are increasingly paying attention to the discrepancy between the returns to foreign education and the returns to domestic education (Bratsberg & Ragan, 2002; Kanas & Van Tubergen, 2009).”
The Contribution of Skilled Immigration and International Graduate Students to U.S. Innovation (2005, background): “educated in the United States earn higher wages ( Bratsberg and Ragan, 2005; Schoeni,”