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country and provide business contacts. However, intermarriage may not be the driving factor of economic success but instead be … likelihood of meeting natives. Intermarriage might also be more "suspense-packed" (positively and negatively) and can thus be …
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This paper examines whether an important cultural institution in India - dowry - can enable male migration by increasing the liquidity available to young men after marriage. We hypothesize that one cost of migration is the disruption of traditional elderly support structures, where sons live...
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This chapter explores immigrant labor market adjustment by first describing methodological and theoretical considerations central to the analysis of earnings growth and occupational mobility. When no restrictions are placed on entry earnings or earnings growth, an inverse relationship between...
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Many countries impose restrictions on some immigrants' job mobility, likely reducing their wages. We quantify such effects for Mexican-born men in the U.S. by recognizing that immigrants who marry U.S. natives receive expedited “green cards” (Permanent Residency). Robust IV estimates...
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Immigration is one of the most important policy debates in Western countries. However, one aspect of the debate is … often mischaracterized by accusations that higher levels of immigration lead to higher levels of crime. The evidence, based … on empirical studies of many countries, indicates that there is no simple link between immigration and crime, but …
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positive association. However, in contrast to those who completed their education pre-immigration, immigrants who arrived at a …
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This paper analyses occupational matching of immigrants from over seventy countries of origin to 22 European countries. Using European Social Survey for the years 2002–2009, we show that immigrants are more likely to be both under- and overeducated than the native born for the jobs that they...
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This paper provides novel evidence on the regional impact of immigration on native employment in a cross … employment losses due to immigration, whereas higher educated workers are more likely to experience employment gains. Moreover … impact of the rise in the share of immigrants across European regions on the employment-to-population rate of natives, but …
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on natives' wages and employment. If immigrants are relatively good substitutes for native workers, the impact of … immigration will be largest immediately upon the immigrants' arrival, and may become smaller as the labor market adjusts to the … supply shock. Conversely, if immigrants upon arrival are poor substitutes for natives, the initial effect of immigration is …
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We study the effect of immigration of foreign-trained, registered nurses (RNs) on the employment and wages of US …-trained RNs. We use the “area” approach and study effects of immigration in labor markets defined by the state. We find … substantial evidence that immigration by foreign-trained nurses increases the supply of nurses and that this increase in supply is …
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