Immigrant earnings: age at immigration matters

By J. Schaafsma, Arthur Sweetman. 2001

379 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Paul W. Miller
2. Barry R. Chiswick
3. M. Skuterud
4. A. Aydemir
5. Arthur Sweetman
6. J. Reitz
7. J. Hunt
8. Arturo González

In Gender Studies

1. Paul W. Miller
2. Barry R. Chiswick
3. M. Skuterud
4. A. Aydemir
5. Arturo González
6. J. Hunt
7. J. Reitz
8. Arthur Sweetman

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Paul W. Miller
2. J. Reitz
3. Barry R. Chiswick
4. M. Skuterud
5. A. Aydemir
6. Arthur Sweetman
7. Arturo González
8. J. Hunt

Citations in the corpus

• Which Immigrants Are Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial? Distinctions by Entry Visa (2011, background): “Bleakley and Chin (2004) show the importance of language acquisition, although Schaafsma and Sweetman (2001) show that much of the effect in Canada reflects zero returns to foreign experience and lower returns to foreign than Canadian education.”
• The labour-market performance of recent migrants (2008, background): “6 Stark and Fan (2007) argue that the decision of a migrant to move permanently, either alone or with their family, or on a seasonal basis depends on the relative costs of separation and living abroad.”
• Explaining the Deteriorating Entry Earnings of Canada’s Immigrant (2004, methodology): “on this idea, Green and Worswick (2003) focus instead on the present value of future earnings to identify”
• The Deteriorating Economic Welfare of Immigrants and Possible Causes: Update 2005 (2005, background): “Schaafsma and Sweetman (2001) observed that age at immigration matters. Using Census data from 1986 to 1996, they found that older workers experienced, on average, low returns to both foreign labour market experience and foreign education. As part of the research program initiated by the research ar”
• The education and wages of immigrant children: the impact of age at arrival (2003, background): “As shown empirically by Bratsberg and Terrell (1994), Carliner (1996), Schoeni (1997); Schaafsma and Sweetman (2001) and Friedberg (2000), variation in country-specific education potentially affects the domestic earnings of immigrants (yd).”
• Immigrant Employment Success in Canada, Part II: Understanding the Decline (2007, background): “For their part, Schaafsma and Sweetman (2001) point out that the negative effect of age at arrival is a related pattern, given that at any given level of education, workers with more foreign experience must arrive later in the life cycle.”
• Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation: An Analysis for Germany (2017, background): “1One exception is for instance the study for Canada of Li and Sweetman (2014), who include females in their analysis.”
• The Complementarity of Language and Other Human Capital: Immigrant Earnings in Canada (2002, background): “14 Schaafsma and Sweetman (1999) also fi nd that the effect of schooling on earnings among immigrants in Canada is greater the greater is the Canadian-specifi c human capital, which in their study is measured by years of labor market experience in Canada, controlling for foreign experience and yea”
• Education, credentials, and immigrant earnings (2008, neutral): “9 Several previous studies, including Baker and Benjamin (1994), Grant (1999) and Schaafsma and Sweetman (2001), use a somewhat broader sample consisting of those who worked 40 or more weeks in the reference year and reported posit ive earnings.”