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This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic … components of ethnicity – country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion – among persons admitted to legal permanent …. India dominates EB-2 and European countries EB-1. (2) The ethnicity portfolio contains more languages than religions. (3 …
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In this paper, we focus on network- and gender-specific determinants of remittances, which are often explained …
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Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the literature, the question of identifying this relationship empirically has only begun to be explored. Using a unique representative survey of 1500 immigrants in the Greater Dublin...
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Household Ethnicity Survey (CHES) to analyze coresidency patterns of rural elders in seven Chinese provinces with high … compare coresidency across ethnicity with respect to both individual and regional degrees of assimilation versus isolation … of happiness, we find again that socioeconomic and demographic conditions matter, as does ethnicity. Controlling all else …
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find a decrease in wage work in both rural and urban areas. However, women living in rural areas and affected by migration … are much more likely to be employed in non-wage activities (i.e. unpaid family work) and subsistence work compared to …
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This paper presents empirical evidence from household and firm survey data collected during 2009-2010 on the implementation of the 2008 Labor Contract Law and its effects on China's workers. The government and local labor bureaus have made substantial efforts to enforce the provisions of the new...
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Using a household sample survey for 2006 we show that the Hui population in the rural part of Ningxia autonomous region of China is disadvantaged compared to the Han majority as regards length of education and household per capita wealth. Yet there is no gap in average disposable income between...
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the same age and gender, Hui persons have shorter educations with the exception of young and middle-aged urban males who …
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cases investigated, a minority ethnicity reduces migration probabilities for people registered in rural China. This is … there are fewer examples that minority ethnicity affects probability to migrate. …
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for some minorities their ethnicity hinders migration. …
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