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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
some studies suggesting that migrants are miserable in their new locations. Observational studies are potentially biased by … the self-selection of migrants so a natural experiment is used to compare successful and unsuccessful applicants to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990934
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Immigration Labor and Workplace Safety
Bauer, Thomas K.; Million, Andreas; Rotte, Ralph; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1998
Using standard as well as recently developed univariate and bivariate count data models, this paper analyzes the determinants of workplace accidents using a firm data set for Germany. Given the tight system of public workplace safety regulation, introduced partly as early as in 1869, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233823
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Naturalisation and Socioeconomic Integration: The Case of the Netherlands
Bevelander, Pieter; Veenman, Justus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Dutch survey ‘Social Position and Use of Public Utilities by Migrants’ for the years 2002 and 2003. A multivariate analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822125
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From Aliens to Citizens: The Political Incorporation of Immigrants
Bevelander, Pieter; Spång, Mikael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This is a draft chapter for the Handbook on Economics of International Migration (Eds. B. R. Chiswick and P. W. Miller) and deals with the political incorporation of immigrants in host societies. Political incorporation is discussed with regard to the regulation of legal status, rights,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010737583
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Immigration and Innovation
Maré, David C.; Fabling, Richard; Stillman, Steven - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We combine firm-level innovation data with area-level Census data to examine the relationship between local workforce characteristics, especially the presence of immigrants and local skills, and the likelihood of innovation by firms. We examine a range of innovation outcomes, and test the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003954
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Citizenship, Co-ethnic Populations and Employment Probabilities of Immigrants in Sweden
Bevelander, Pieter; Pendakur, Ravi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
the same period, immigration patterns by country of birth changed substantially, with an increasing number of immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008578123
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The Importance of Heterogeneity When Examining Immigrant Education-Occupation Mismatch: Evidence from New Zealand
Poot, Jacques; Stillman, Steven - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
differences between each migrant’s actual years of education and the estimated typical years of education in the narrowly defined … occupation in which they work. We find that migrants living in New Zealand for less than 5 years are on average overeducated …, while earlier migrants are on average undereducated. However, once accounting for heterogeneity, we find that both …
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