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Can Immigrants Help Women "Have it All"? Immigrant Labor and Women's Joint Fertility and Labor Supply Decisions

Furtado, Delia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high skilled US-born women in cities that have experienced larger...

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Immigrant Labor, Child-Care Services, and the Work-Fertility Trade-Off in the United States

Furtado, Delia; Hock, Heinrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

-skilled immigration has driven down wages in the US child-care sector. More affordable child-care has, in turn, increased the fertility of …

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Fertility Responses of High-Skilled Native Women to Immigrant Inflows

Furtado, Delia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

While there is debate regarding the magnitude of the impact, immigrant inflows are generally understood to depress wages and increase employment in immigrant-intensive sectors. In light of the over-representation of the foreign-born in the childcare industry, this paper examines whether...

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The Impacts of International Migration on Remaining Household Members: Omnibus Results from a Migration Lottery Program

Gibson, John; McKenzie, David; Stillman, Steven - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

these selectivity issues using the randomization provided by an immigration ballot under the Pacific Access Category (PAC …) of New Zealand's immigration policy. We survey applicants to the 2002-05 PAC ballots in Tonga and compare outcomes for … ballots. The immigration laws determine which household members can accompany the principal migrant, providing an instrument …

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The Microeconomic Determinants of Emigration and Return Migration of the Best and Brightest: Evidence from the Pacific

Gibson, John; McKenzie, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

A unique survey which tracks worldwide the best and brightest academic performers from three Pacific countries is used to assess the extent of emigration and return migration among the very highly skilled, and to analyze, at the microeconomic level, the determinants of these migration choices....

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Eight Questions about Brain Drain

Gibson, John; McKenzie, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

High-skilled emigration is an emotive issue that in popular discourse is often referred to as brain drain, conjuring images of extremely negative impacts on developing countries. Recent discussions of brain gain, diaspora effects, and other advantages of migration have been used to argue against...

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The Economic Consequences of "Brain Drain" of the Best and Brightest: Microeconomic Evidence from Five Countries

Gibson, John; McKenzie, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Brain drain has long been a common concern for migrant-sending countries, particularly for small countries where high-skilled emigration rates are highest. However, while economic theory suggests a number of possible benefits, in addition to costs, from skilled emigration, the evidence base on...

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A Land of Milk and Honey with Streets Paved with Gold: Do Emigrants Have Over-Optimistic Expectations about Incomes Abroad?

McKenzie, David; Gibson, John; Stillman, Steven - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Millions of people emigrate every year in search of better economic and social opportunities. Anecdotal evidence suggests that emigrants may have over-optimistic expectations about the incomes they can earn abroad, resulting in excessive migration pressure, and in disappointment amongst those...

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How Important Is Selection? Experimental vs. Non-Experimental Measures of the Income Gains from Migration

McKenzie, David; Gibson, John; Stillman, Steven - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Measuring the gain in income from migration is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general population, making it hard to obtain an appropriate comparison group of non-migrants. This paper uses a migrant lottery to overcome this problem, providing an experimental measure of...

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Miserable Migrants? Natural Experiment Evidence on International Migration and Objective and Subjective Well-Being

Stillman, Steven; Gibson, John; McKenzie, David; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Over 200 million people worldwide live outside their country of birth and typically experience large gains in material well-being by moving to where incomes are higher. But effects of migration on subjective well-being are less clear, with some studies suggesting that migrants are miserable in...

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