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Unemployment, Market Work and Household Production
Burda, Michael - 2009
Using time-diary data from four countries we show that the unemployed spend most of the time not working for pay in additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. There is no relation between unemployment duration and the split of time between household...
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Intrahousehold Inequality
Chiappori, Pierre-André - 2014
current literature on the estimation of the sharing rule based on a number of approaches, including the use of distribution …
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To the New World and Back Again : Return Migrants in the Age of Mass Migration
Abramitzky, Ran - 2016
Migration (1850-1913). Return migrants were somewhat negatively selected from the migrant pool: Norwegian immigrants who … moving to the US. Upon returning to Norway, return migrants held higher-paid occupations than Norwegians who never moved … despite being negatively selected, return migrants were able to accumulate savings and improve their economic circumstances …
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The Roles of Assimilation and Ethnic Enclave Residence in Immigrant Smoking
Maclean, Johanna Catherine - 2013
In this study we examine the importance of assimilation and ethnic enclave residence for smoking outcomes among United States immigrants. We draw data on over 140,000 immigrants from the Current Population Survey Tobacco Use Supplements between 1995 and 2011. Several patterns emerge from our...
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How Do Immigrants Spend Time? : The Process of Assimilation
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2010
Using 2004-2008 data from the American Time Use Survey, we show that sharp differences between the time use of immigrants and natives become noticeable when activities are distinguished by incidence and intensity. We develop a theory of the process of assimilation--what immigrants do with their...
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Is the New Immigration Really So Bad?
Card, David - 2005
This paper reviews the recent evidence on U.S. immigration, focusing on two key questions: (1) Does immigration reduce the labor market opportunities of less-skilled natives? (2) Have immigrants who arrived after the 1965 Immigration Reform Act successfully assimilated? Looking across major...
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Intergenerational Persistence of Health in the U.S : Do Immigrants Get Healthier as they Assimilate?
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude - 2016
It is well known that a substantial part of income and education is passed on from parents to children, generating substantial persistence in socio-economic status across generations. In this paper, we examine whether another form of human capital, health, is also largely transmitted from...
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Immigrant Assimilation into U.S. Prisons, 1900-1930
Moehling, Carolyn M. - 2013
The analysis of a new dataset on state prisoners in the 1900 to 1930 censuses reveals that immigrants rapidly assimilated to native incarceration patterns. One feature of these data is that the second generation can be identified, allowing direct analysis of this group and allowing their...
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Managing the Family Firm : Evidence from CEOs at Work
Bandiera, Oriana - 2013
We present evidence on the labor supply of CEOs, and on whether family and professional CEOs differ on this dimension. We do so through a new survey instrument that allows us to codify CEOs' diaries in a detailed and comparable fashion, and to build a bottom-up measure of CEO labor supply. The...
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Immigration, Trade and Productivity in Services : Evidence from U.K. Firms
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - 2015
This paper explores the impact of immigrants on the imports, exports and productivity of service-producing firms in the U.K. Immigrants may substitute for imported intermediate inputs (offshore production) and they may impact the productivity of the firm as well as its export behavior. The first...
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