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The Occupations and Human Capital of U.S. Immigrants
This paper estimates the multi-dimensional human capital endowments of immigrants by characterizing their occupational decisions. This approach allows for estimation of physical skill and cognitive ability endowments, which are difficult to measure directly. Estimation implies that immigrants as a whole are abundant in cognitive ability and scarce in experience/training and communication skills. Counterfactual estimates of the wage impacts of immigration are skewed: the largest gain from preventing immigration is 3.2% higher wages, but the largest loss is 0.3% lower
wages. Crowding of immigrants into select occupations plays a minor role in explaining these impacts; occupations’ skill attributes explain the bulk
Victorian Clothing Operatives Union minutes
This item is inscribed on the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register as part of the Minute Books of Pre-Federation Australian Trade Unions (http://www.amw.org.au/register/listings/minute-books-pre-federation-australian-trade-unions
Victorian Pressers' Union, General, Special, Quarterly Meeting minutes
This item is inscribed on the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register as part of the Minute Books of Pre-Federation Australian Trade Unions (http://www.amw.org.au/register/listings/minute-books-pre-federation-australian-trade-unions
Het groot manifest der Nederlandse taal
De wijze waarop het Engels wordt doorgevoerd in het hoger onderwijs, deugt niet, schreef Ad Verbrugge vorige week. Vandaag brengt het Taalcollectief een manifest uit. Met tien actiepunten