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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 …

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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...

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Immigration and Status Exchange in Australia and the United States

Choi, Kate H.; Tienda, Marta; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

status exchange hypothesis for Australia and the United States, two Anglophone nations with long immigration traditions whose …

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Human Capital and Earnings of Female Immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States

Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Trejo, Stephen J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

skill disadvantage of foreign-born women in the United States (relative to foreign-born women in Australia and Canada … than women to gain admission on the basis of immigration criteria related to labor market considerations rather than family … relationships. For this reason, we might expect that the stronger emphasis on skill-based admissions in Australia and Canada …

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Immigration Background and the Intergenerational Correlation in Education

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Nguyen, Trong-Ha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper analyzes the degree of intergenerational education mobility among immigrant and native-born youth in Australia. We find that young Australians from non-English-speaking background (NESB) immigrant families have an educational advantage over their English-speaking background (ESB)...

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Immigrant Wage and Employment Assimilation: A Comparison of Methods

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hanel, Barbara; McVicar, Duncan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We compare alternative methods for estimating immigrant wage and employment assimilation using unique panel data over 2001–2009 for a large, nationally-representative sample of immigrants. Previous assimilation estimates have been mainly based on cross-sectional data and have therefore...

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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...

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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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Immigration Policy and the Skills of Immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States

Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Trejo, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

Canada. …

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Selection Policy and the Labour Market Outcomes of New Immigrants

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

achieving national objectives regarding immigration. These changes stem primarily from the belief that skill-based immigrants do …

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