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Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2010

Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding … how culture manifests itself in the migration process for three groups of actors: the migrants, those remaining in the … migration as an economic phenomenon; but what about them matters? Properly, we should be looking at the determinants of identity …

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Migration and culture

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2010

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Immigrants at new destinations : how they fare and why

Carneiro, Anabela; Fortuna, Natércia; Varejão, José M. - 2010

Using matched employer-employee data, we identify the determinants of immigrants’ earnings in the Portuguese labor market. Results previously reported for countries with a long tradition of hosting migrants are also valid in a new destination country. Two-thirds of the gap is attributable to...

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Multi-generation model of immigrant earnings : theory and application

Epstein, Gil S.; Darvish-Lecker, Tikva - 2001

The literature, starting with Chiswick (1977, 1978) to Gang and Zimmermann (2000), more recently, focuses on the economic achievements and performance of first- and secondgeneration migrants. This paper presents a three-generation migrant analysis, comparing relative economic performance of...

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Self-employment and earnings among high-skilled immigrants in the United States

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2000

This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to analyze the labor market experience of high-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high-skilled occupations than natives, but the gap between the two...

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Debt portfolios

Hintermaier, Thomas; Koeniger, Winfried - 2011

We provide a model with endogenous portfolios of secured and unsecured household debt. Secured debt is collateralized by owner-occupied housing whereas unsecured debt can be discharged according to bankruptcy regulations. We show that the calibrated model matches important quantitative...

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Match bias from earnings imputation in the current population survey : the case of imperfect matching

Bollinger, Christopher R. (contributor); … - 2005

This paper examines alternative forms of match bias arising from earnings imputation. Wage equation parameters are estimated based on mixed samples of workers who do and do not report earnings, the latter group being assigned earnings of donors who share some but not all the attributes of the...

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Fatter attraction : anthropometric and socioeconomic characteristics in the marriage market

Chiappori, Pierre-André; Oreffice, Sonia; … - 2009

We construct a matching model on the marriage market along more than one characteristic, where individuals have … women assess each other through an index combining these various attributes, so the matching is one-dimensional. We estimate …

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The role of body weight for health, earnings and life satisfaction

Hübler, Olaf - 2019

interdependencies are taken into account and matching procedures are applied, the outcome matches to that of independent and unmatched …

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Earnings penalty of educational mismatch : a comparison of alternative methods of assessing over-education

Wen, Le; Maani, Sholeh A. - 2023

In this paper we systematically evaluate the impact of using the alternative methods conventionally used in the international literature on the measured incidence of educational mismatch and its earnings effects. We use a rich Australian longitudinal data set for a controlled group of full-time...

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