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References for Language proficiency and immigrants’ economic integration
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Further reading
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Key references
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Warman, C., Worswick, C. "Technological
change, occupational tasks and declining immigrant outcomes:
Implications for earnings and income inequality in
Canada" Canadian Journal
of Economics 48:2 (2015): 736–772. Key reference: [1]
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Hanushek, E. A. "Why standard
measures of human capital are misleading" KDI Journal of
Economic Policy 37:2 (2015): 22–39. Key reference: [2]
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Li, Q., Sweetman, A. "The quality of
immigrant source country educational outcomes: Do they matter in
the receiving country?" Labour
Economics 26 (2014): 81–93. Key reference: [3]
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Blau, F. D., Kahn, L. M. "Do cognitive test
scores explain higher US wage inequality?" Review of
Economics and Statistics 87:1 (2005): 184–193. Key reference: [4]
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Hanushek, E. A., Schwerdt, G., Wiederhold, S., Woessmann, L. "Returns to skills
around the world: Evidence from PIAAC." European Economic
Review 73 (2015): 103–130. Key reference: [5]
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Green, D. A., Riddell, W. C. "Literacy and
earnings: An investigation of the interaction of cognitive and
unobserved skills in earnings generation" Labour
Economics 10:2 (2003): 165–184. Key reference: [6]
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Clarke, A., Skuterud, M. "A comparative
analysis of immigrant skills and their utilization in Australia,
Canada, and the USA" Journal of
Population Economics 29:3 (2016): 849–882. Key reference: [7]
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Imai, S., Stacey, D., Warman, C. "From engineer to
taxi driver? Language proficiency and the occupations skills of
immigrants" Canadian Journal
of Economics 52:3 (2019): 914–953. Key reference: [8]
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Ferrer, A., Green, D. A., Riddell, W. C. "The effect of
literacy on immigrant earnings" Journal of Human
Resources 41:2 (2006): 380–410. Key reference: [9]
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Warman, C., Webb, M. D., Worswick, C. "Immigrant category
of admission and the earnings of adults and children: How far
does the apple fall?" Journal of
Population Economics 32:1 (2019): 53–112. Key reference: [10]
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Warman, C., Worswick, C. "Technological
change, occupational tasks and declining immigrant outcomes:
Implications for earnings and income inequality in
Canada" Canadian Journal
of Economics 48:2 (2015): 736–772.
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Additional References
- Bonikowska, A., Green, D. A., Riddell, W. C. Literacy and the Labour Market: Cognitive Skills and Immigrant Earnings Statistics Canada 89-552-M No.020, 2008.
- Capatina, E. "Skills and the evolution of wage inequality" Labour Economics 28 (2014): 41–57.
- Chiswick, B. R., Miller, P. W. "Why is the payoff to schooling smaller for immigrants?" Labour Economics 15:6 (2008): 1317–1340.
- Hanushek, E. A., Schwerdt, G., Wiederhold, S., Woessmann, L. "Coping with change: International differences in the returns to skills" Economics Letters 153 (2017): 15–19.
- Hu, M., Daley, A., Warman, C. "Literacy, numeracy, technology skill, and labour market outcomes among Indigenous peoples in Canada" Canadian Public Policy 45:1 (2019): 48–73.