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remittance income by employing statistical matching to construct counterfactuals that allow us to compare the occurrence in child … labor in comparable households that differ solely in their access to remittances. We find that remittances have in general … failed to mitigate household reliance on child labor in Punjab. However, the impact depends critically on whether remittances …
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We study how licensing, certification and unionisation affect the wages of natives and migrants and their representation among licensed, certified, and unionized workers. We provide evidence of a dual role of labor market institutions, which both screen workers based on unobservable...
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We analyze the relationship between natives' attitudes towards citizenship acquisition for foreigners and trust. Our hypothesis is that, in sub-Saharan Africa, the slave trade represents the deep factor behind contemporary attitudes toward citizenship, with more intense exposure to historical...
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This paper explores the relationship between social identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants. Using survey data from Italy, we provide robust evidence that immigrants with stronger feelings of belonging to the societies of both the host and home country have higher employment rates,...
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cities can mitigate these adverse mental health effects. Using a unique longitudinal survey data of Rural-to-Urban Migration …
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Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying causes of their advantages are under-studied. We employ panel time-use diaries by two cohorts of children observed over a decade to present new evidence that children of Asian...
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Over the past decades, globalization has led to a huge increase in the migration of workers, as well as students. This … paper develops a simple two-step model that describes the decisions of an individual vis-à-vis education and migration, and … presents a unified model, wherein the two migration decisions are combined into a single, unique model. This paper shows that …
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migration and trade. This paper aims to check the effect of such restrictions on the unemployment of unskilled labor in the … source country. In competitive general equilibrium framework with three goods and four factors restriction on migration …
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Different interpretations of migration confront themselves in the political arena. Considering two factors, necessity … society of ghettos, and the society of reason. The first three share the ideological assumption that migration flows are …
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The growing literature on environmental migration presents conflicting results. While some find that natural disasters … induce international migration, others discover a dampening effect. We aim to reconcile these differences by using a … on international migration contingent on agriculture exists. Third, non-environmental factors such as economic …
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