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This paper examines whether an important cultural institution in India - dowry - can enable male migration by increasing the liquidity available to young men after marriage. We hypothesize that one cost of migration is the disruption of traditional elderly support structures, where sons live...
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- the lifting of the Saudi women's driving ban - on women's employment by randomizing rationed spaces in driver's training … effects on employment are only observed among never-married and widowed women, who negotiate employment with their fathers … women's employment. They provide evidence that men's resistance to wives' employment poses a binding constraint to female …
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opportunities outside the home. Frontier women were less likely to report "gainful employment," but among those who did, relatively …
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Using data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), we construct two measures of the longevity of older wives and husbands. For definiteness, we focus on couples in which the wife was 60 and the husband 62 in 1988. Our first measure utilizes a 4 x 4 "longevity matrix" in which the bins...
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The growing education and employment of women are usually cited as crucial forces behind the decline of marriage since …. Second, immigration had a dynamic effect on partner search costs. Its short-run effect was to fragment the marriage market … marriage and later marriage in the 1890s and 1900s. As immigration declined, the long-run effect was for immigrants and their …
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We investigate the effects of US immigration on native workers in a search and matching environment that allows for … unskilled immigration benefits the low-skilled native workers and hurts the high-skilled. On the other hand, new skilled … immigration benefits both skilled and unskilled natives. Moreover, when we simulate the effects of the actual US immigration …
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decisions. To assess the impact of immigration, I compare simulated earnings in the presence of immigration with a series of … counterfactual experiments. My findings suggest that immigration has a small negative direct effect on earnings, but a positive and … 60% of the variations in earnings caused by immigration. …
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We analyze the impact of the skill-biased immigration influx that took place during the years 2000-2009 in the United … that although the skill-biased immigration raised the overall net income to natives, it may have had distributional effects …. Specifically, unskilled native workers gained in terms of both employment and wages. Skilled native workers, on the other hand …
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relationship between that misperceptions about immigrants an immigration and discrimination against immigrants in labor market. Our … of an econometric model confirms that misperceptions about the size of immigration and its effects on the country …
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Abstract: This paper applies cointegration analysis and Granger non-causality tests in order to identify the direction of causality between migration in Greece and two macroeconomic variables: GDP and unemployment. We use annual data for the 1980-2011 period. The data are drawn from the...
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