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Crime and immigration : do poor labor market opportunities lead to migrant crime?
Bell, Brian - 2014
Immigration is one of the most important policy debates in Western countries. However, one aspect of the debate is … often mischaracterized by accusations that higher levels of immigration lead to higher levels of crime. The evidence, based … on empirical studies of many countries, indicates that there is no simple link between immigration and crime, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416335
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Do immigrant workers depress the wages of native workers? : short-term wage effects of immigrants are close to zero : and in the long term immigrants can boost productivity and wag...
Peri, Giovanni - 2014
demand and technology, production expansion, and specialization of native workers as immigration rises. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417057
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Should divorce be easier or harder? : the evidence, though weak, favors legal, easy, unilateral divorce
González, Libertad - 2014
Many countries have enacted legislation over the past few decades making divorce easier. Some countries have legalized divorce where it had previously been banned, and many have eased the conditions required for a divorce, such as allowing unilateral divorce (both spouses do not have to agree on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422608
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The effects of recessions on family formation : fertility and marriage rates are pro-cyclical in many countries, but the longer-term consequences are inconclusive
Kondo, Ayako - 2016
being considered a primary cause. However, economic theory is not conclusive about whether deterioration in youth employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449533
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Beauty Premium and Marriage Premium in Search Equilibrium : Theory and Empirical Test
Bonilla, Roberto - 2017
We propose a theoretical explanation for the so-called “beauty premium”. Our approach relies entirely on search frictions and the fact that physical appearance plays an important role in attracting a marriage partner. We analyse the interaction between frictional labour and marriage markets,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971994
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The Effect of Education on Marital Status and Partner Characteristics : Evidence from the UK
Anderberg, Dan; Zhu, Yu - 2021
This paper uses a particular school exit rule previously in effect in England and Wales that allowed students born within the first five months of the academic year to leave school one term earlier than those born later in the year. Focusing on women, we show that those who were required to stay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316196
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Crime and immigration : do poor labor market opportunities lead to migrant crime?
Bell, Brian - 2019
Immigration is one of the most important policy debates in Western countries. However, one aspect of the debate is … often mischaracterized by accusations that higher levels of immigration lead to higher levels of crime. The evidence, based … on empirical studies of many countries, indicates that there is no simple link between immigration and crime, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011960237
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Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation – An Analysis for Germany
Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K. - 2010
This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269990
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Immigration, Growth and Unemployment : Panel VAR Evidence from OECD Countries
Boubtane, Ekrame; Coulibaly, Dramane; Rault, Christophe - 2021
This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315737
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Immigrants in the classroom and effects on native children : having immigrant children in the classroom may sometimes, but not always, harm educational outcomes of native children
Jensen, Peter - 2015
Many countries are experiencing increasing inflows of immigrant students. This raises concerns that having a large share of students for whom the host country language is not their first language may have detrimental effects on the educational outcomes of native children. However, the evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433610