Doctoral Dissertation Research: Inequalities and Skills of Immigrants in the U.S., Canada, and Australia

对于美国、加拿大、澳大利亚等移民人口较多的国家来说，移民的技能构成了国家人力资源的重要组成部分。 然而，人们对以下问题知之甚少：1）移民为东道国带来的技能; 2）移民在他们进入的新劳动力市场中表现如何。 现有的移民研究表明，原籍国的发展水平和不平等影响移民的技能和社会经济成果，但很少关注当地社会环境以及原籍国和东道国之间移民网络的性质。 本项目研究这些地方特征和移民网络如何影响移民的劳动力市场技能和经济成功。 该项目使用三个目的地国家-美国、加拿大和澳大利亚-政府机构收集的十年一次的人口普查数据。 然后将这些数据与从联合国和其他国际组织的出版物中收集的各种国家一级的指标联系起来。 新的更全面的数据将联合收割机原籍国的属性与移民定居区的特点结合起来。 然后，分析估计人力资本，社会资本和宏观社会因素对移民结果的影响，不同的国家来源和目的地的群体。

For countries with large immigrant populations such as the United States, Canada, and Australia, the skills of immigrants constitute an important part of national human resources. However, little is known about what determines 1) the skills immigrants bring to their host country, and 2) how well immigrants perform in the new labor markets they enter. Existing immigration studies have demonstrated that the level of development and inequality in the country-of-origin influences immigrants' skills and socioeconomic outcomes, but have given little attention to local social environments and the nature of immigrant networks between the source and host countries. This project examines how these local characteristics and immigrant networks affect the labor market skills and economic success of immigrants. The project uses decennial census data collected by government agencies of three destination countries - the United States, Canada, and Australia. It then links these data to various national level indicators gathered from publications of the United Nations and other international organizations. The new and more comprehensive data combine country-of-origin attributes with characteristics of the immigrants' settlement areas. The analyses then estimate the effects of human capital, social capital, and macro social factors on immigrant outcomes for groups that differ by national origin and destination.