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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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Immigrants at new destinations: How they fare and why

Carneiro, Anabela; Fortuna, Natércia; Varejão, José - 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.; 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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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.; Hirsch, Barry T. - 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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Impacts of rural electrification in Rwanda

Bensch, Gunther; Kluve, Jochen; Peters, Jörg - 2011

Rural electrification is believed to contribute to the achievement of the MDG. In this paper, we investigate electrification impacts on different indicators. We use household data that we collected in Rwanda in villages with and without electricity access. We account for self-selection and...

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Irish Migration: Characteristics, Causes and Consequences

Barrett, Alan - 1999

The purpose of this paper is to review what has been learnt about Irish migration from the work of social scientists …

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Public and private sector jobs, unreported income and consumption gap in India: Evidence from micro-data

Kar, Saibal; Roy, Poulomi; Saha, Sarani - 2012

This paper tries to document the presence of unreported income among public sector employees in India. We investigate empirically the wage gap as well as consumption expenditure parity between public and private sector workers. It tests the hypothesis that despite a lower level of public sector...

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Measuring the shadow economy: Endogenous switching regression with unobserved separation

Lichard, Tomáš; Hanousek, Jan; Filer, Randall Keith - 2012

We develop an estimator of unreported income, perhaps due to tax evasion, that does not depend on as strict identifying assumptions as previous estimators based on microeconomic data. The standard identifying assumption that the self-employed underreport income whereas wage and salary workers do...

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