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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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Immigrants and Unemployment in the European Community: From the Eyes of Natives

Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

This paper examines whether a greater concentration of foreigners increases the likelihood of unemployment in local labor markets among citizens of the European Community. It provides the results of probit equations estimating the likelihood of employment in Europe as a function of a set of...

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What are Migration Networks?

Bauer, Thomas; Epstein, Gil; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

Migration networks are usually captured by the number of people from the migrant’s country in the host region. Using …-village-specific variables on migrants’ location choice. …

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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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Herd Effects or Migration Networks? The Location Choice of Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.

Bauer, Thomas; Epstein, Gil; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

on the migrant’s decision of where to migrate. Moreover, the significance and size of the effects vary according to the …

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Ethnic Goods and Immigrant Assimilation

Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Some immigrants try to keep their ethnicity hidden while others become ever deeply more mired in their home culture. We argue that among immigrants this struggle manifests itself in the ethnic goods they choose to consume. Different types of ethnic goods have vastly different effects on...

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