Why is the payoff to schooling smaller for immigrants?

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Why is the payoff to schooling smaller for immigrants?

To answer the question, this paper uses the Over-Required-Under Education technique, a newdecomposition methodology and data on adult men from the 2000 US Census. Using the 510 three-digitoccupational categories, similar patterns emerge whether the mean or mode of education in the occupation is used...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Chiswick, B., Miller, Paul
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Elsevier BV * North-Holland 2008
Subjects:	Rates of return Schooling Immigrants Occupations Selectivity Earnings
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/6977

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