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Friday the 13th: The Empirics of Bad Luck
Fidrmuc, Jan; Tena, J. D. - CESifo - 2014
We use the UK Labor Force survey to investigate whether the socio-economic outcomes of people born on the 13th day of the month, and of those born on Friday the 13th, differ from the outcomes of people born on more auspicious days. In many European countries, including the UK, such days are...
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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US? Selective Features of Immigration to four major OECD Countries
Geis, Wido; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - CESifo - 2008
of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all … geographical and cultural, immigration policies and migrant networks. Differentiating immigrants by their educational attainments …, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …
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How do Migrants Choose their Destination Country? An Analysis of Institutional Determinants
Geis, Wido; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - CESifo - 2008
institutional determinants, especially labor-market institutions, on migrants' choices. Based on a large data set constructed from … migrants, while generous pension systems may deter them. Based on separate estimations for high- and low-skilled migrants …
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Substitution Between Individual and Source Country Characteristics: Social Capital, Culture, and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Women
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence - CESifo - 2015
Using the New Immigrant Survey, we investigate the impact of immigrant women’s own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country on their labor supply and wages in the US. Women migrating from higher female labor supply countries work more in the US. Most of...
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Immigration and Entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - CESifo - 2015
is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an …
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State Dependence in Welfare Receipt: Transitions Before and After a Reform
Riphahn, Regina T.; Wunder, Christoph - CESifo - 2013
We study state dependence in welfare receipt and investigate whether welfare transitions changed after a welfare reform. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we apply dynamic multinomial logit estimators and find that state dependence in welfare receipt is not a central feature of...
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Politics, Unemployment, and the Enforcement of Immigration Law
Makowsky, Michael D.; Stratmann, Thomas - CESifo - 2012
Immigration control-related audits and their resulting sanctions are not solely determined by impartial enforcement of … congressional oversight, i.e., legislative involvement, determines the bureaucratic immigration enforcement process. We examine the … union membership, correlate to bureaucratic decisions made at every stage of immigration enforcement. …
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Immigration, Unemployment and Growth in the Host Country: Bootstrap Panel Granger Causality Analysis on OECD Countries
Boubtane, Ekrame; Coulibaly, Dramane; Rault, Christophe - CESifo - 2013
This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host … 1980-2005 period for 22 OECD countries, we find that, only in Portugal, unemployment negatively causes immigration, while … in any country, immigration does not cause unemployment. On the other hand, our results show that, in four countries …
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Immigration, Search, and Redistribution: A Quantitative Assessment of Native Welfare
Battisti, Michele; Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Peri, Giovanni; … - CESifo - 2014
redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit … immigration are 1.25% and 1.00% for high and low skilled natives, respectively. …We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search …
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Immmigration and Internal Mobility in Canada
Beine, Michel; Coulombe, Serge - CESifo - 2014
decrease net interprovincial migrants within the year by about 50, a number substantially higher than is present in existing … suggests that, in general, the impact of immigration on labor market conditions depends critically on the way immigrants are …
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