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Citizenship in the United States: The Roles of Immigrant Characteristics and Country of Origin
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This study develops and estimates a model of the naturalization process in the US. The model is based on both the characteristics of immigrants and features of their countries of origin. The empirical analysis is based on the 2000 US Census. Both the characteristics of immigrants and the...
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Country of Origin and Immigrant Earnings, 1960-2000: A Human Capital Investment Perspective
Duleep, Harriet; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Using microdata from the 1960-2000 decennial censuses, this paper explores how large initial differences in immigrant earnings by country of origin change with duration in the United States. One analysis reveals that country of origin adds less to the explanation of earnings, among working-age...
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The Employment, Unemployment and Unemployment Compensation Benefits of Immigrants
Chiswick, Barry R.; Hurst, Michael E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
This report analyzes the employment and unemployment experiences of adult foreign-born men, both among themselves and in comparison with the native born. The empirical analysis uses microdata from the 1990 Census of Population. Three dependent variables are analyzed, weeks worked (employment) in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762363
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Overconfident People Are More Exposed to "Black Swan" Events: A Case Study of Avalanche Risk
Bonini, Nicolao; Pighin, Stefania; Rettore, Enrico; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Overconfidence is a well-established bias in which someone's subjective confidence in their own judgments is systematically greater than their objective accuracy. There is abundant anecdotal evidence that overconfident people increase their exposure to risk. In this paper, we test whether...
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A Salience Theory of Choice Errors
Manzini, Paola; Mariotti, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We study a psychologically based foundation for choice errors. The decision maker applies a preference ranking after forming a 'consideration set' prior to choosing an alternative. Membership of the consideration set is determined both by the alternative specific salience and by the rationality...
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Stochastic Choice and Consideration Sets
Manzini, Paola; Mariotti, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We model a boundedly rational agent who suffers from limited attention. The agent considers each feasible alternative with a given (unobservable) probability, the attention parameter, and then chooses the alternative that maximises a preference relation within the set of considered alternatives....
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Intra-Industry Adjustment to Import Competition: Theory and Application to the German Clothing Industry
Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import competition. The model predicts that in the short run the least efficient firms in the industry become inactive, surviving firms face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the...
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Labor Market Adjustments after a Large Import Shock: Evidence from the German Clothing Industry and the Multi-Fibre Arrangement
Braakmann, Nils; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by the phasing out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement. Using the German shoe industry as a control group and administrative data, we study adjustments on the individual and firm level...
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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector … China and the other BRICS. These differences are down to differences in industrial policy: in China industrial policy …
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The Role of Coresidency with Adult Children in the Labor Force Participation Decisions of Older Men and Women in China
Connelly, Rachel; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Zhang, Dandan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural …
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