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Forced Migration and Refugees : Policies for Successful Economic and Social Integration
Bahar, Dany; Brough, Rebecca J.; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The inflow of refugees and their subsequent integration can be an important challenge for both the refugees themselves and the host society. Policy interventions can improve the lives and economic success of refugees and of their communities. In this paper, we review the socioeconomic...
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Human Capital Growth - with Region and Gender in Perspective
Liu, Gang; Fraumeni, Barbara M.; Managi, Shunsuke - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
growth of human capital and several of its constituent factors are broken down by gender and by region, and in some cases … capital have grown over time. The purpose is to identify the sources of human capital growth by region, gender, and various …
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Gender, race, pay and promotion in the British nursing profession : estimation of a generalised ordered probit model
Pudney, Stephen E.; Shields, Michael - 1997
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Cultural Remittances and Modern Fertility
Melki, Mickael - 2024
We argue that migrants played a significant role in the diffusion of the demographic transition from France to the rest of Europe in the late 19th century. Employing novel data on French immigration from other European regions from 1850 to 1930, we find that higher immigration to France...
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Dreaming of Leaving the Nest? Immigration Status and the Living Arrangements of DACAmented
Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Lonsky, Jakub - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This study investigates the effects of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) on the living arrangements and housing behavior of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. Using an event-study approach and difference-in-differences (DID) estimates, we compared immigrants above and below...
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Quantifying the Uncertainty of Imputed Demographic Disparity Estimates : The Dual-Bootstrap
Lu, Benjamin; Wan, Jia; Ouyang, Derek; Goldin, Jacob; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
is to impute the missing race or ethnicity labels using proxies, then use those imputations to estimate the disparity …
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The Effect of Low-Skill Immigration Restrictions on US Firms and Workers : Evidence from a Randomized Lottery
Clemens, Michael A.; Lewis, Ethan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The U.S. limits work visas for low-skill jobs outside of agriculture, with a binding quota that firms access via a …
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Return Migration and Human Capital Flows
Amanzadeh, Naser; Kermani, Amir; McQuade, Timothy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We bring to bear a novel dataset covering the employment history of about 450 million individuals from 180 countries to study return migration and the impact of skilled international migration on human capital stocks across countries. Return migration is a common phenomenon, with 38% of skilled...
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The Economics of Women's Rights
Tertilt, Michele; Doepke, Matthias; Montenbruck, Laura; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Two centuries ago, in most countries around the world, women were unable to vote, had no say over their own children or property, and could not obtain a divorce. Women have gradually gained rights in many areas of life, and this legal expansion has been closely intertwined with economic...
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The Child Penalty Atlas
Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Landais, Camille; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
different regions of the world. The fraction of gender inequality explained by child penalties varies systematically with … minuscule fraction of gender inequality. But as economies develop -- incomes rise and the labor market transitions from … subsistence agriculture towards salaried work in industry and services -- child penalties take over as the dominant driver of …
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