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Migrants from marginal dry areas in Syria : destinations, employment, and returns
Abdelali-Martini, Malika; Ibrahim, Kindah; Dhehibi, Boubaker - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 23, pp. 1-14
We examine the determinants of migrants’ choices of destination, employment, and remittances from one of the poorest … remittances sent back home to preserve households’ assets in marginal dry areas. …
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Skill mismatch among migrant workers : evidence from a large multi-country dataset
Visintin, Stefano; Tijdens, Kea Gartje; Klaveren, … - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-34
This article unravels the migrants' incidence of skill mismatch taking into consideration different migration flows … destination combinations, which allows for detailed analysis of different migration flows. This provides an innovative multi …
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Skill composition of immigration flows and the measurement of education-occupation mismatch
Poot, Jacques; Stillman, Steven - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 18, pp. 1-28
Recent papers have found that often immigrants are overqualified relative to native-born workers when comparing an individual’s education to the ‘average’ education in their occupation. We show that these results are sensitive to differences in the education distribution between immigrants...
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Immigrant over- and under-education : the role of home country labour market experience
Matloob, Piracha; Tani, Massimiliano; Vadean, Florin - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-21
work experience, particularly that of education-occupation mismatch prior to migration.We show that type of work experience …
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Russian migrants to Russia : assimilation and local labor market effects
Lazareva, Olga - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-25
after about ten years after the peak of migration wave. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404246
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Relative labor supply in intermarriage
Nottmeyer, Olga - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-27
Spouse's relative labor supply and the degree of specialization in intermarriage might differ from that in immigrant and native marriage for several reasons. Intermarried couples may specialize less due to smaller comparative advantages resulting from positive assortative mating by education,...
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Remittance and financial inclusion in refugee migrants : inverse probability of treatment weighting using the propensity score
Hewa Wellalage, Nirosha; Locke, Stuart - In: Applied economics 52 (2020) 9, pp. 929-950
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Migration and culture
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2010
Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding … how culture manifests itself in the migration process for three groups of actors: the migrants, those remaining in the … migration as an economic phenomenon; but what about them matters? Properly, we should be looking at the determinants of identity …
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The cost of immigrants' occupational mismatch and the effectiveness of postarrival policies in Canada
Aydede, Yigit; Dar, Atul A. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 9, pp. 1-23
520 occupations for native-born workers and use it as the benchmark reflecting the "common" matching quality in Canadian … identically to the native born in terms of relatedness. Although the results show a significant and persistent poor matching …
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Differences in the labor market entry of second-generation immigrants and ethnic Danes
Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Kromann, Lene - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-22
search models by matching second-generation immigrants to their ethnic Danish twins according to parental characteristics and …
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