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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 …

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The Labour Market Impact of Immigration

dustmann, christian; Glitz, Albrecht; Frattini, Tommaso - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2008

In the first part of this paper, we present a stylised model of the labour market impact of immigration. We then discuss mechanisms through which an economy can adjust to immigration: changes in factor prices, output mix and production technology. In the second part, we explain the problems of...

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Is Immigration Good or Bad for the Economy? Analysis of Attitudinal Responses

dustmann, christian; Preston, Ian - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2004

In this paper we study attitudinal responses of host country residents towards further immigration that are triggered by economic considerations. We develop an economic model motivating the empirical work that takes a broader view on these issues than previous papers. We provide empirical...

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Can Migration Reduce Educational Attainments? Depressing Evidence from Mexico

McKenzie, David Mckenzie; Rapoport, Hillel - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2006

This paper examines the impact of migration on educational attainments in rural Mexico. Using historical migration … rates by state to instrument for current migration, we find evidence of a significant negative effect of migration on … completing high-school. The negative effect of migration on schooling is somewhat mitigated for younger girls with low educated …

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Assimilation through Marriage

Epstein, Gil S.; Pomerantz, Renana Lindner - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012

During the last few decades cultural changes have been taking place in many countries due to migration. The degree to …

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The Impact of Financial Literacy Training for Migrants

Gibson, John; McKenzie, David Mckenzie; Zia, Bilal - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012

remains high for many migration corridors. International efforts to lower costs by facilitating the entry of new financial …

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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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Heaven's Swing Door: Endogenous skills, migration networks and the effectiveness of quality-selective immigration policies

Bertoli, Simone; Rapoport, Hillel - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2013

view tends to neglect two important dynamic effects: the role of migration networks, which could reduce immigrants' quality …, and the responsiveness of education decisions to the prospects of migration. Our model shows that migration networks and … immigration policies, the initial pattern of migrants' self-selection on education, and the way time-equivalent migration costs by …

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Relative Quality of Foreign Nurses in the United States

Pan, Jessica; Cortés, Patricia - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012

resulting from the high and heterogeneous returns to the occupation generated by active government support for the migration of …

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