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to a one percentage point increase in the ratio of immigrants over native workers. While many studies in our sample …
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, second, and third generation Asian and Hispanic immigrants in Florida perform differently on reading and mathematics tests …-arriving first generation immigrants perform better than do second generation immigrants, and second generation immigrants perform … better than third generation immigrants. Among first generation immigrants, the earlier the arrival, the better the students …
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In this paper I analyse the use and compensation of fixed-term and on-call employment contracts in the Netherlands. I use an analytical framework in which wage differentials result from two types of uncertainty. Quantity uncertainty originates from imperfect foresight in future product demand. I...
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on a wide range of political and social outcomes. The existing evidence suggests that immigrants often, but not always …
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-existing networks of immigrants to construct an instrument for immigration across Korean municipalities, we find that locations …
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We study the long-run career mobility of young immigrants, mostly refugees, from Vietnam who moved to the United States … during 1989-1995. This third and final migration wave of young Vietnamese immigrants was sparked by unexpected events that … young vs. older immigrants, and we quantify explanatory factors like education, language fluency, and persistence from …
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survey and pre-analysis plan. Firms exogenously authorized to employ more immigrants significantly increase production …
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In this paper we analyze the effect of immigrants on native jobs in fourteen Western European countries. We test … whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational …: immigrants took "simple" (manual-routine) type of occupations and natives moved, in response, toward more "complex" (abstract …
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lower wage by moving to markets that were not directly targeted by immigrants and where presumably the wage did not drop …
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This paper uses data from the Mexican Family Life Survey (MxFLS) to examine the patterns of selection of male, Mexican migrants to the United States. We confirm previous findings that Mexican migrants are selected from the middle of the education distribution, but show that there is no evidence...
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