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Refugee Migration and the Labor Market : Lessons from 40 Years of Post-Arrival Policies in Denmark
Nielsen Arendt, Jacob; Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin - 2022
Denmark has accepted refugees from a large variety of countries and for more than four decades. Denmark has also …-arrival refugee policies and summarize studies that evaluate their effects on the labor market performance of refugees. Lastly, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013292496
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Refugees' and Irregular Migrants' Self-Selection into Europe : Who Migrates Where?
Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2019
About 1.4 million refugees and irregular migrants arrived in Europe in 2015 and 2016. We model how refugees and … irregular migrants for multiple origin and destination countries. Refugees and female irregular migrants are positively self … irregular migrants are self-selected. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864933
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Labor Market Competition and the Assimilation of Immigrants
Albert, Christoph; Glitz, Albrecht; Llull, Joan - 2021
In this paper, we show that the wage assimilation of immigrants is the result of the intricate interplay between individual skill accumulation and dynamic equilibrium effects in the labor market. When immigrants and natives are imperfect substitutes, increasing immigrant inflows widen the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013216254
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Self-confirming immigration policy
Giordani, Paolo E.; Ruta, Michele - 2012
We study immigration policy in a small receiving economy under self-selection of migrants. We show that a non … (crowd in) skilled migrants and thus confirm initial beliefs. This self-fulfilling mechanism sustains the endogenous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281452
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Immigrants and Gender Roles: Assimilation vs. Culture
Blau, Francine D. - 2015
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women’s behavior in the United States—looking both over time with immigrants’ residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431157
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Refugee Migration and the Labor Market: Lessons from 40 Years of Post-Arrival Policies in Denmark
Nielson Arendt, Jacob; Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin - 2022
Denmark has accepted refugees from a large variety of countries and for more than four decades. Denmark has also …-arrival refugee policies and summarize studies that evaluate their effects on the labor market performance of refugees. Lastly, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013266654
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Permanent Residency and Refugee Immigrants' Skill Investment
Nielson Arendt, Jacob; Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin - 2023
their labor supply. Our findings suggest that stricter permanent residency rules, rather than incentivizing refugees' skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377553
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Substitution Between Individual and Source Country Characteristics: Social Capital, Culture, and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Women
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence - 2015
Using the New Immigrant Survey, we investigate the impact of immigrant women’s own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country on their labor supply and wages in the US. Women migrating from higher female labor supply countries work more in the US. Most of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531780
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Loss of Peers and Individual Worker Performance: Evidence from H-1B Visa Denials
Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Doran, Kirk; Marinoni, Astrid; … - 2022
migrants, exploiting the unexpected increased denials of H-1B visa extensions in the United States beginning in 2017. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290062
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Intergenerational transmission of skills during childhood and optimal public policy
Casarico, Alessandra; Micheletto, Luca; Sommacal, Alessandro - 2011
The paper characterizes the optimal tax policy and the optimal quality of day care services in a OLG model with warm-glow altruism where parental choices over child care arrangements affect the probability that the child becomes a high-skilled adult in a type-specific way. With respect to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275050