Cognitive and non-cognitive abilities of immigrants: New perspectives on migrant quality from a selective immigration country.

Autor/inn/en	Nejad, Maryam Naghsh; Schurer, Stefanie
Institution	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit
Titel	Cognitive and non-cognitive abilities of immigrants: New perspectives on migrant quality from a selective immigration country. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Kognitive und nicht-kognitive Fähigkeiten von Einwanderern: Neu Perspektiven über die Qualität von Migranten aus einem ausgewählten Einwanderungsland.
Quelle	Bonn (2019), 56 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	IZA discussion paper. 12700
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
ISSN	2365-9793
Schlagwörter	Kognitive Kompetenz; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Bildungsertrag; Zweite Generation; Inländer; Auswahlverfahren; Erste Generation; Australien
Abstract	"Economic theory suggests that selective immigration policies based on observable characteristics will affect unobservable migrant quality. Little empirical evidence exists on this hypothesis. We quantify traditionally unobservable components of migrant quality in Australia, a high-migrant share OECD country with a selective immigration policy. We proxy migrant quality with widely-accepted measures of personality and cognitive ability. Both first- and second-generation immigrants outperform natives on socially-beneficial personality traits. While first-generation migrants suffer language-ability penalties, their off-spring overcome these penalties and outperform natives in cognitive ability. Immigrants do not outperform natives in the labor market, a finding which may be explained by heterogeneous wage returns to non-cognitive ability." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2020/3