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The shrinking number of workers due to smaller young cohorts entering the labour market and large-scale outward migration are undermining Bulgaria’s growth prospects, the sustainability of its social institutions and society more widely. Bulgaria needs to provide more support for families and...
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In today's globalized world, people are increasingly mobile and often need to communicate across different languages. Learning a new language is an investment in human capital. Migrants must learn the language of their destination country, but even non-migrants must often learn other languages...
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The Roma are the largest ethnic minority in Europe - as well as one of the most disadvantaged. A triple vicious circle is at play: Substandard socio-economic outcomes reinforce each other; they fuel negative attitudes and perceptions, leading to ill-chosen policies; and segmentation is...
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Household time and money allocations in response to income support programs vary across diverse family circumstances … the cash transfer on net household income, earnings, and household expenditures were similar for families irrespective of … race or ethnicity, even given initial differences in family structure, government benefit receipt, and employment. However …
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We analyze the impact of World War II service on income and mobility among male Army and Army Airforce veterans from … Native American veterans earned slightly more. Income effects varied by type of income. Veterans also showed lower rates of …
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model predicts both segmented sorting of migrants to countries with a compressed income distribution, with negative sorting … increasing with lower portability and positive sorting increasing with portability. Sorting to countries with greater income … compared to migrants to countries with greater income dispersion. Regressions results on data for 16 OECD countries from the …
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In many countries, ethnic minority groups are overrepresented in self-employment compared with the majority community … ethnic group. Furthermore, growing the self-employment sector is a policy objective for many governments, which see it as a … source of innovation, economic growth, and employment. While self-employment might offer economic opportunities to minority …
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This chapter reviews key literature studying the effects of wars on minority and underrepresented groups in U.S. labor markets in the 20th century. These labor markets, characterized by historically pervasive barriers to entry into certain occupations and industries, promotions, and fair pay for...
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We compare the earnings and the intergenerational earnings mobility of immigrants with natives in Sweden. We find an …
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This paper investigates the effect of local immigration enforcement regimes on the migration decisions of the foreign born. Specifically, the analysis uses individual level American Community Survey data to examine the effect of recent 287(g) agreements which allow state and local law...
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