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Migration, Risk Attitudes, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey

Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2013

Do more risk loving migrants opt for self-employment? This is a question especially relevant for policy makers designing selective immigration policies in countries of destination. In order to provide a rigorous answer to it, we use a novel vignette-adjusted measure of risk preferences in the...

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2000 Families: identifying the research potential of an origins-of migration study

Guveli, Ayse; Ganzeboom, Harry; Baykara-Krumme, Helen; … - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2014

Despite extensive recent advances in the empirical and theoretical study of migration, certain critical areas in the … analysis of European migration remain relatively underdeveloped both theoretically and empirically. Specifically, we lack … multiple generations and incorporating family migration trajectories. This paper outlines the development, data and design of …

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Migration, Risk Attitudes, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey

Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2014

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744648

Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance? Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey

Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2014

Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the literature, the question of identifying this relationship empirically has only begun to be explored. Using a unique representative survey of 1500 immigrants in the Greater Dublin...

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Employment Effects of Spatial Dispersal of Refugees

Damm, Anna Piil; Rosholm, Michael - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2006

We argue that spatial dispersal policies on refugees and asylum seekers influence labour market assimilation of refugees through two mechanisms: first, the local job offer arrival rate and, second, place utility. Our partial search model with simultaneous job and residential location search...

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Gender and Ethnicity-Married immigrants in Britain

dustmann, christian; Fabbri, Francesca - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2005

differences in observable characteristics. We analyse employment assimilation for all groups over the migration cycle. Our main … part of this differential can be explained by observable characteristics. Over the migration cycle, the data suggests that …

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Understanding attitudes to immigration: The migration and minority module of the first European Social Survey

dustmann, christian; Card, David; Preston, Ian - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2005

Immigration control is an issue that figures prominently in public policy discussions and election campaigns throughout Europe. Although immigration may have positive effects on economic efficiency and growth in the receiving economy, it is often the negative aspects -or perceived negative...

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The Impact of Immigration on the UK Labour Market

dustmann, christian; Fabbri, Francesca; Preston, Ian - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2005

This paper provides an empirical investigation of the way immigration affects labour market outcomes of native born workers in the UK, set beside a theoretical discussion of the underlying economic mechanisms. We discuss the problems that may arise in empirical estimations, and suggest ways to...

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Ethnic Enclaves and Immigrant Labour Market Outcomes: Quasi-Experimental Evidence

Damm, Anna Piil - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2006

This study investigates empirically how residence in ethnic enclaves affects labour market outcomes of refugees. Self-selection into ethnic enclaves in terms of unobservable characteristics is taken into account by exploitation of a Danish spatial dispersal policy which randomly disperses new...

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Direct Evidence on Risk Attitudes and Migration

Jaeger, David; Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2007

can be most efficiently used. It has long been hypothesized that individuals' migration propensities depend on their … available data from the German Socio-Economic Panel to measure directly the relationship between migration propensities and … relative to the unconditional migration propensity and compared to the conventional determinants of migration. We also find …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004992927