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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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Empirical Methods in the Economics of International Immigration

Lozano, Fernando A.; Steinberger, Michael D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

migration. We begin by exploring the three broad research areas that economists examine when researching immigration. We then …

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Border Enforcement and Selection of Mexican Immigrants in the United States

Lozano, Fernando A.; Lopez, Mary J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Since 1986 the United States has made considerable efforts to curb illegal immigration. This has resulted in an … likely to be kidnapped, smuggled, or raped when crossing illegally. If migration costs are not the same for all migrants …

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Mexican Immigrants, the Labor Market and the Current Population Survey: Seasonality Effects, Framing Effects, and Sensitivity of Results

Lozano, Fernando A.; Sorensen, Todd - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

produce seasonality effects that differentially affect the composition of recent and earlier migrants, thereby changing …

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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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The Labor Market Value to Legal Status

Lozano, Fernando A.; Sorensen, Todd - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We present estimates of the effect of legal immigration status on earnings of undocumented workers. Our contribution to … estimate the effect of the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) on immigrants’ labor market outcomes using a triple …

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