The international transferability of immigrants’ human capital

Barry R. Chiswick; Paul W. Miller

Economics of Education Review Vol. 28, No. 2 pp. 162–169

This paper uses the approach in the under/over education literature to analyze the extent of matching of educational level to occupational attainment among adult native born and foreign born men in the US, using the 2000 Census. Overeducation is...

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The complementarity of language and other human capital: immigrant earnings in Canada

Barry R. Chiswick; Paul W. Miller

Economics of Education Review Vol. 22, No. 5 pp. 469–480

This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with...

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A test of the sorting model of education in Australia

Paul W Miller; Charles Mulvey; Nick Martin

Economics of Education Review Vol. 23, No. 5 (October 2004) pp. 473–482

In this paper we test the hypothesis advanced by Weiss (J. Economic Perspectives 9(4)(1995)133) that under sorting models the return to schooling across identical twins would decline over time compared to the return for the population as a whole....

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Does the choice of reference levels of education matter in the ORU earnings equation?

Barry R. Chiswick; Paul W. Miller

Economics of Education Review Vol. 29, No. 6 pp. 1076–1085

This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the over-education/required education/under-education (ORU) literature are sensitive to whether the usual or reference levels of education are measured using the Realized...

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The impact of surplus skills on earnings: Extending the over-education model to language proficiency

Barry R. Chiswick; Paul W. Miller

Economics of Education Review Vol. 36, No. 1 (October 2013) pp. 263–275

This paper examines whether the framework developed in the educational mismatch field of research can be generalized to language skills. It uses data from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) database and both “Worker Self-Assessment” and ...

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Comparing Web-Based to Traditional Instruction for Teaching Special Education Content

Kelly O'Neal; W Paul Jones; Susan P. Miller; Pamela Campbell; Thomas Pierce

Teacher Education and Special Education Vol. 30, No. 1 (2007) pp. 34–41

Web-based instruction, including both online courses and online degree programs, offer flexibility to students and instructors and are now typical in higher education programs. Researchers compared WBI to traditional instruction for teaching...

Early childhood behaviours, schooling and labour market outcomes: estimates from a sample of twins

Anh T. Le; Paul W. Miller; Andrew C. Heath; Nick Martin

Economics of Education Review Vol. 24, No. 1 (February 2005) pp. 1–17

This paper examines the links between childhood conduct disorder problems and schooling and labour market outcomes net of genetic and environmental effects. The results show that individuals who experienced conduct disorder problems are more likely...

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Implementation of interprofessional education (IPE) in 16 U.S. medical schools: Common practices, barriers and facilitators

Courtney West; Lori Graham; Ryan T. Palmer; Marissa Fuqua Miller; Erin K. Thayer; Margaret L. Stuber; Linda Awdishu; Rachel A. Umoren; Maria A. Wamsley; Elizabeth A. Nelson; Pablo A. Joo; James W. Tysinger; Paul George; Patricia A. Carney

Journal of Interprofessional Education & Practice Vol. 4, No. 1 (September 2016) pp. 41–49

Enhanced patient outcomes and accreditation criteria have led schools to integrate interprofessional education (IPE). While several studies describe IPE curricula at individual institutions, few examine practices across multiple institutions.To...

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