Computer Skills, Destination Language Proficiency and the Earnings of Natives and Immigrants
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Keywords
earnings; language; immigrants; internet; computers;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
- D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation
- J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LTV-2005-10-22 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
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