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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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The Dynamic Impact of Immigration on Natives' Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Israel

Cohen-Goldner, Sarit; Paserman, M. Daniele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

for native workers, we expect that the impact of immigration will be largest immediately upon the immigrants’ arrival, and … substitutes for natives because of their lack of local human capital, the initial effect of immigration is small, and the effect … other hand, we do not find any effect of immigration on employment, neither in the short nor in the long run. …

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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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Interethnic Marriages and their Economic Effects

Furtado, Delia; Trejo, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Immigrants who marry outside of their ethnicity tend to have better economic outcomes than those who marry within ethnicity. It is difficult, however, to interpret this relationship because individuals with stronger preferences for ethnic endogamy are likely to differ in unobserved ways from...

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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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Why Does Intermarriage Increase Immigrant Employment? The Role of Networks

Furtado, Delia; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Social networks are commonly understood to play a large role in the labor market success of immigrants. Using 2000 U.S. Census data, this paper examines whether access to native networks, as measured by marriage to a native, increases the probability of immigrant employment. We start by...

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Interethnic Marriage: A Choice between Ethnic and Educational Similarities

Furtado, Delia; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper examines the effects of education on intermarriage, and specifically whether the mechanisms through which education affects intermarriage differ by immigrant generation, age at arrival, and race. We consider three main paths through which education affects marriage choice. First,...

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Estimating the Return to Training and Occupational Experience: The Case of Female Immigrants

Cohen-Goldner, Sarit; Eckstein, Zvi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Do government provided training programs benefit the participants and the society? We address this question in the context of female immigrants who first learn the new language and then choose between working or attending government provided training. Although theoretically training may have...

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I'll Marry You If You Get Me a Job: Marital Assimilation and Immigrant Employment Rates

Furtado, Delia; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Marriage to a native has a theoretically ambiguous impact on immigrant employment rates. Utilizing 2000 U.S. Census data, this paper empirically tests whether and how marriage choice affects the probability that an immigrant is employed. Results from an ordinary least squares model controlling...

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Cross-Nativity Marriages and Human Capital Levels of Children

Furtado, Delia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

A common perception about immigrant assimilation is that association with natives necessarily speeds the process by which immigrants become indistinguishable from natives. Using 2000 Census data, this paper casts doubt on this presumption by examining the effect of an immigrant's marriage to a...

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