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Exchange rate, remittances and expenditure of foreign-born households : evidence from Australia
Hasan, Syed; Ratna, Nazmun; Shakur, Shamim - 2019
survey data indicates a similar pattern for total expenditures. With reduced outward aggregate remittances from Australia … nor the expenditures on imported food items changed differently for any group in that period, while an analysis with HILDA …
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Finding love abroad : who marries a migrant and what do they gain?
Dziadula, Eva; Zavodny, Madeline - 2023
This study explores the role of individual and local marriage market characteristics in whether recently wed U.S. residents "imported" a spouse instead of marrying someone already present in the country. Our findings indicate that U.S. natives and immigrants whose spouse is a "marriage migrant"...
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Country of origin and employment prospects among immigrants : an analysis of south-south and north-south migrants to South Africa
Peters, Amos C.; Sundaram, Asha - In: Applied economics letters 22 (2015) 16/18, pp. 1415-1418
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Job mobility as a new explanation for the immigrant-native wage gap : a longitudinal analysis for the German labor market
Brenzel, Hanna; Reichelt, Malte - 2015
depreciation in human capital with migration or differences in endowments. However, even after considering human capital measures …Theoretisch lassen sich Lohnunterschiede zwischen Migranten und Einheimischen mithilfe der Humankapitaltheorie erklären …. Diese unterstellt Ausstattungsunterschiede oder eine Abwertung von Humankapital bei Migration. Trotzdem bleibt auch nach …
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Occupational regulation, institutions, and migrants' labor market outcomes
Koumenta, Maria; Pagliero, Mario; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2022
We study how licensing, certification and unionisation affect the wages of natives and migrants and their representation among licensed, certified, and unionized workers. We provide evidence of a dual role of labor market institutions, which both screen workers based on unobservable...
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How migrants' food tastes shape international agro-food trade
Kohler, Andreas; Wunderlich, Anne - In: Applied economics letters 29 (2022) 5, pp. 469-476
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Reservation wages of first- and second-generation migrants
Constant, Amelie; Krause-Pilatus, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - In: Applied economics letters 24 (2017) 13/15, pp. 945-949
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Heterogeneous displacement effects of migrant labor supply : quasi-experimental evidence from Germany
Scharfbillig, Mario; Weißler, Marco - 2019
Dieses Papier untersucht die Auswirkungen des Arbeitskräfteangebot von Migranten auf die Beschäftigung von … Auswirkungen eines höheren Arbeitskräfteangebots von Migranten, abzüglich der zusätzlichen Ausgaben bei der Ankunftfi, die die …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052219
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Economic impact of STEM immigrant workers
Baum, Christopher F.; Lööf, Hans; Stephan, Andreas - 2018
STEM-focused industries are critical to the innovation-driven economy. As many firms are running short of STEM workers, international immigrants are increasingly recognized as a potential for high-tech job recruitment. This paper studies STEM occupations in Sweden 2011-2015 and tests hypotheses...
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Social assimilation and labor market outcomes of migrants in China
Cai, Shu; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2020
Previous research has found identity to be relevant for international migration, but has neglected internal mobility as … in the case of the Great Chinese Migration. However, the context of the identities of migrants and their adaption in the … migration process is likely to be quite different. The gap is closed by examining social assimilation and the effect on the …
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