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The IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey: A Scientific Use File

Arni, Patrick; Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This reference paper describes the sampling and contents of the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey and outlines its vast potential for research in labor economics. The data have been part of a unique IZA project to connect administrative data from the German Federal Employment Agency with innovative...

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Demographic Alternatives for Aging Industrial Countries: Increased Total Fertility Rate, Labor Force Participation, or Immigration

Holzmann, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

The paper investigates the demographic alternatives for dealing with the projected population aging and low or negative growth of the population and labor force in the North. Without further immigration, the total labor force in Europe and Russia, the high-income countries of East Asia and the...

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Aid and Migration: An Analysis of the Impact of Progresa on the Timing and Size of Labour Migration

Angelucci, Manuela - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper models the short and medium-run impact of aid on migration, considering alternatively the effect of unconditional and conditional cash transfers to financially constrained households. Data from the evaluation of a Mexican development program, Progresa, are used to estimate the effect...

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SSI, Labor Supply, and Migration

Neumark, David; Powers, Elizabeth T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program in the United States creates incentives for potential aged recipients to reduce labor supply prior to becoming eligible, and our past research finds that older men likely to be eligible for SSI at age 65 reduce their labor supply in the years...

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Social Housing and Location Choices of Immigrants in France

Fougère, Denis; Kramarz, Francis; Rathelot, Roland; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Our study examines the empirical links between social housing policy and location choices of immigrants in France. More specifically, we characterize the main individual and contextual determinants of the probability for immigrants to live in a HLM (habitations à loyer modéré, dwelling with a...

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Immigration and Crime: New Empirical Evidence from European Victimization Data

Nunziata, Luca - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

whether immigration affects crime victimization and the perception of criminality among European natives. Using data from the … simulations. Our empirical findings show that an increase in immigration does not affect crime victimization, but it is associated … with an increase in the fear of crime, the latter being consistently and positively correlated with the natives …

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