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Ortega, Francesc; Peri, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

income. We also show that the effect of migration operates through an increase in total factor productivity, which appears to …

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Learning the Hard Way: The Effect of Violent Conflict on Student Academic Achievement

Brück, Tilman; Di Maio, Michele; Miaari, Sami H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We study the effect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the probability to pass the final high-school exam for Palestinian students in the West Bank during the Second Intifada (2000-2006). By exploiting within-school variation in the number of conflict-related Palestinian fatalities during...

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Comparative Essay on Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey

Tansel, Aysit; Daoud, Yousef - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This study exposes a comparative treatment of the private returns to education in Palestine and Turkey over the period … Palestine. The median ratio of male to female return is 0.55 (university) in 2004 and decreased to 0.17 (high school) in 2008 in … Palestine. The corresponding figures for Turkey are 0.79 and .082 (both for high school).Finally, it was found that the …

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Differences in the Distribution of High School Achievement: The Role of Class Size and Time-in-Term

Corak, Miles; Lauzon, Darren - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper adopts the technique of DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) to decompose differences in the distribution of PISA test scores in Canada, and assesses the relative contribution of differences in the distribution of “class size” and time-in-term, other school factors and student...

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Fünf Jahre EU-Ostererweiterung: Schlechte Noten für deutsche Abschottungspolitik

Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Arbeitnehmerfreizügigkeit innerhalb der Europäischen Union führt nicht zu Belastungen des Arbeitsmarktes und der Sozialversicherungen. Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt eine aktuelle Forschungsarbeit über die Entwicklungen und Folgen der Ost-West-Migration nach den jüngsten Erweiterungsrunden der...

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International Migration of Couples

Junge, Martin; Munk, Martin D.; Poutvaara, Panu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We present a theory on migration of dual-earner couples and test it in the context of international migration. Our model predicts that the probability that a couple emigrates increases in the home-country earnings of the primary earner. The effect of the home-country earnings of the secondary...

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Climate Variability and International Migration: The Importance of the Agricultural Linkage

Cai, Ruohong; Feng, Shuaizhang; Pytlikova, Mariola; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

-documented adverse impact of temperature on agricultural productivity. In addition, migration flows to current major destinations are …

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Let's Be Selective about Migrant Self-Selection

Biavaschi, Costanza; Elsner, Benjamin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Migrants are typically self-selected from the population of their home country. While a large literature has identified the causes of self-selection, we turn in this paper to the consequences. Using a combination of non-parametric econometrics and calibrated simulation, we quantify the impact of...

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Distortions in the International Migrant Labor Market: Evidence from Filipino Migration and Wage Responses to Destination Country Economic Shocks

McKenzie, David; Theoharides, Caroline; Yang, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We use an original panel dataset of migrant departures from the Philippines to identify the responsiveness of migrant numbers and wages to GDP shocks in destination countries. We find a large significant elasticity of migrant numbers to GDP shocks at destination, but no significant wage...

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Social Deprivation and Exclusion of Immigrants in Germany

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Sinning, Mathias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper aims at providing empirical evidence on social exclusion of immigrants in Germany. We demonstrate that when using a conventional definition of the social inclusion index typically applied in the literature, immigrants appear to experience a significant degree of social deprivation and...

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