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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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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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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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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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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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Trends in the Returns to Social Assimilation: Earnings Premiums among U.S. Immigrants that Marry Natives

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

Previous studies show that immigrants married to natives earn higher wages than immigrants married to other immigrants. Using data from the 1980-2000 U.S. censuses and the 2005-2010 American Community Surveys, we show that these wage premiums have increased over time. Our evidence suggests that...

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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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