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This paper analyzes the reservation wages of first and second generation migrants. Based on recently collected and rich … reservation wages increase from first to second generation migrants. Two extensions of the basic job search model, namely an …
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stylized description of the past West German immigration problem. Examining the wage functions of white and blue collar natives …
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result in highly restrictive immigration policies. Promoting integration of migrants into the host country would go a long … migrants’ integration, namely the process of social assimilation. The aim of this paper is to take a close look at migrants … module to the role and relevance of social relations for both migrants and natives. An innovative feature of this analysis is …
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Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socio-economic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper extends the analysis of immigrant housing tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic...
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considered to be competitors for these resources. The question of how attitudes of majority populations towards immigration are … immigration from different minority groups, as well as attitudes towards related concerns, like job security and benefit … expenditures. We specify and estimate a multiple factor model. The correlation between answers to questions on immigration and on …
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This paper asks whether history can shed light on the modern debate about immigration's labour market impact in high …, the so-called first global century. It then assesses the effects of immigration on wages and employment with and without … links between these economic relationships and immigration policy. It concludes with an explanation for the apparent …
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immigrants is the most valuable, immigration enhances imports regardless of the quality of institutions in the partner country …
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Immigration is an important problem in many societies, and it has wide-ranging eects on the educational systems of host … family immigration in a framework where school quality and student outcomes are determined endogenously. This allows us to …, we can study the eect of immigration on the school system and how school quality may self-reinforce immigrants' and …
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Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which they first entered the United States. Immigrants who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a...
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There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. In some countries where labour markets are...
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