Job Search and Immigrant Assimilation: An Earnings Frontier Approach

Daneshvary, Nasser; Herzog, Henry W.; Hofler, Richard A.; Schlottmann, Alan M.

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“…The various difficulties encountered when immigrants are attempting to determine whether a particular job-search method will appropriately or effectively lead to job success reflect the likelihood that their LOF interacts with the process of selecting a jobsearch method for the labor market of their new country. While immigrants will continually need to learn how to make sense of the requirements conveyed by local social 8 actors, this process of improving sense-making will be more difficult to master the more that a specific job-search method requires social interactions as a medium (Daneshvary, Herzog, Hofler, & Schlottmann, 1992). Therefore, the choice of a local job-search method may explain the difference in the job success of immigrants versus natives when immigrants are competing in the local job market.…”

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Liability-of-foreignness effects on job success of immigrant job seekers

Fang

Samnani

Novičević

et al. 2013

Journal of World Business

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. We examined the liability-of-foreignness (LOF) hypothesis for immigrant and native job seekers by analyzing a national dataset that tracks their use of job-search methods and their associated job outcomes in the Canadian labor market. To our knowledge this is the first empirical test of LOF at the individual-level while controlling for variables at multiple levels. We found support for LOF when job applicants used the rich media job-search methods of social networks and recruitment agencies, but not when they used the lean media of newspaper ads and the internet. Study limitations, implications, and future research are discussed.JEL Classification: J15, J71, J78

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Liability-of-foreignness effects on job success of immigrant job seekers

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Samnani

Novičević

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Journal of World Business

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“…They find that workers in areas paying relatively higher unemployment benefits exhibit less incomplete information. Daneshvary et al (1992) use the technique to get at assimilation of foreign workers in the United States. Groot and Oosterbeek (1994) found that "males have more labor market information than females [which is]…”

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Earnings Over the Life Cycle: The Mincer Earnings Function and Its Applications

Polachek

2008

FNT in Microeconomics

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Earnings Over the Lifecycle: The Mincer Earnings Function and Its Applications *In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings are distributed across the population. In the years since Mincer's seminal work, he as well as his students and colleagues extended the original human capital model, reaching important conclusions about a whole array of observations pertaining to human well-being. This line of research explained why education enhances earnings; why earnings rise at a diminishing rate throughout one's life; why earnings growth is smaller for those anticipating intermittent labor force participation; why males earn more than females; why whites earn more than blacks; why occupational distributions differ by gender; why geographic and job mobility predominate among the young; and why numerous other labor market phenomena occur. This paper surveys the answers to these and other questions based on research emanating from Mincer's original earnings function specification. JEL Classification:J1, J3, J7

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“…Actually, it was constantly increasingdriven by the wage differentials between provinces and by the attractiveness of the Jakarta area -and generally flowing in the opposite direction with respect to the government transmigration policies. 8 In 1971, the size of inter-provincial migration was still similar to that of the colonial period (4.9%), while it increased to 7 percent in 1980, to 8. 3 Theoretical framework: information, media and migration choices…”

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“…Other authors have modeled the process of gathering information during the job search process in the new destination labor markets (Herzog et al 1985;Vishwanath 1991;Daneshvary et al 1992). Relatively few papers, instead, have looked at how information -or the lack of it -may influence actual moving decisions.…”

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Media exposure and internal migration — Evidence from Indonesia

Farré

Fasani

2013

Journal of Development Economics

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author.IZA Discussion Paper No. 6012 October 2011 ABSTRACT Media Exposure and Internal Migration:Evidence from Indonesia * This paper investigates the impact of television on internal migration in Indonesia. We exploit the differential introduction of private television throughout the country and the variation in signal reception due to topography to estimate the causal effect of media exposure. Our estimates reveal important long and short run effects. An increase of one standard deviation in the number of private TV channels received in the area of residence reduces future interprovincial migration by 1.7-2.7 percentage points, and all migration (inter and intra-provincial) by 4-7.4 percentage points. Short run effects are slightly smaller, but still sizeable and statistically significant. We also show that respondents less exposed to private TV are more likely to consider themselves among the poorest groups of the society. As we discuss in a stylized model of migration choice under imperfect information, these findings are consistent with Indonesia citizens over-estimating the net gains from internal migration.JEL Classification: J61, L82, O15

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Job Search and Immigrant Assimilation: An Earnings Frontier Approach

Cited by 52 publications

References 18 publications

Liability-of-foreignness effects on job success of immigrant job seekers

Liability-of-foreignness effects on job success of immigrant job seekers

Earnings Over the Life Cycle: The Mincer Earnings Function and Its Applications

Media exposure and internal migration — Evidence from Indonesia

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