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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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H-1Bs: How Do They Stack Up to US Born Workers?

Lofstrom, Magnus; Hayes, Joseph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Combining unique individual level H-1B data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and data from the …

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The Dynamics of Immigrant Welfare and Labor Market Behavior

Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

This paper analyzes transitions into and out of 3 different labor market states, social assistance, unemployment and employment. We estimate a dynamic multinomial logit model, controlling for endogenous initial condition and unobserved heterogeneity, using a large representative Swedish panel...

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Self-Employment and Earnings among High-Skilled Immigrants in the United States

Lofstrom, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to analyze the labor market experience of high-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high-skilled occupations than natives, but the gap between the two...

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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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Immigrant Assimilation and Welfare Participation: Do Immigrants Assimilate Into or Out-of Welfare

Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased in Sweden in the 1990's …

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Labor Market Assimilation and the Self-Employment Decision of Immigrant Entrepreneurs

Lofstrom, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study labor market assimilation of self-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage/salary workers are estimated. To control for endogenous sorting into the sectors, models of the self-employment...

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Employment Effects of State Legislation against the Hiring of Unauthorized Immigrant Workers

Bohn, Sarah; Lofstrom, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

opportunities as a way to deter further illegal immigration and as such is likely to increase poverty among an already marginalized …

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