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The earnings of immigrants and the quality adjustment of immigrant human capital

Sharaf, Mesbah - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-18

The quality dimension of immigrant human capital has received little attention in the economic assimilation literature. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how human capital acquired in different source countries may be adjusted according to its quality in the Canadian labor market....

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Chapter 13. Undocumented Immigration and Human Trafficking

Orrenius, Pia; Zavodny, Madeline - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 659-716). 2015

legal migration and introduce a number of challenges for migrants, employers, law enforcement, and policymakers. This … and more punitive sanctions for undocumented migrants and smugglers, there have been periods in recent history when … undocumented immigration has been viewed with benign neglect. We review the costs and benefits of undocumented migration from a …

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Age at Immigrant Arrival and Career Mobility : Evidence from Vietnamese Refugee Migration and the Amerasian Homecoming Act

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Smith, Kendall E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study the long-run career mobility of young immigrants, mostly refugees, from Vietnam who moved to the United States during 1989-1995. This third and final migration wave of young Vietnamese immigrants was sparked by unexpected events that culminated in the Amerasian Homecoming Act....

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Dreaming of Leaving the Nest? Immigration Status and the Living Arrangements of DACAmented

Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Lonsky, Jakub - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This study investigates the effects of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) on the living arrangements and housing behavior of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. Using an event-study approach and difference-in-differences (DID) estimates, we compared immigrants above and below...

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Driving Towards Integration : Early Childhood Education Implications of Extending Driving Privileges to Undocumented Immigrants

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Deza, Monica; Kostandini, Genti - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We estimate the effect of granting access to driver licenses to undocumented immigrants on their offspring's access to early childhood education (ECE). Using individual-level data from the ACS, we find that granting driving privileges to undocumented immigrants leads to a 6% increase in ECE...

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Chapter 3. The Adjustment of Immigrants in the Labor Market

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 105-182). 2015

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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Cameo 3. The Two-Step Australian Immigration Policy and its Impact on Immigrant Employment Outcomes

Gregory, R.G. - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 1421-1443). 2015

environment, with so many temporary visa holders, has led to a two-step immigration policy whereby an increasing proportion of …

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Bridges or buffers? : motives behind immigrants’ religiosity

Garcia-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-23

This study reviews and evaluates the motives and incentives behind immigrants’ religiosity, focusing on the two sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to identify indicators for the type of incentive – whether...

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Immigration policy and fertility : evidence from undocumented migrants in the US

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 189 (2021), pp. 274-297

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Is immigration enforcement shaping immigrant marriage patterns?

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther; Wang, … - In: Journal of public economics 190 (2020), pp. 1-22

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