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Illegal Migration and Consumption Behavior of Immigrant Households

Dustmann, Christian; Fasani, Francesco; Speciale, Biagio - 2021

We analyze the effect of immigrants’ legal status on their consumption behavior using unique survey data that samples both documented and undocumented immigrants. To address the problem of sorting into legal status, we propose two alternative identification strategies as exogenous source of...

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Genetic Distance and International Migrant Selection

Krieger, Tim - 2015

migrant selection. We analyze bilateral country-level education-specific migration stocks from 85 sending countries to the 15 … migration for low-skilled migrants. Results are robust to the inclusion of sending and destination country fixed effects …

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Estimating Immigrant Earnings Profiles When Migrations are Temporary

Dustmann, Christian - 2016

selective out-migration literature, our basic structure assumes that the process that determines out-migration is unrelated to …

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The Effect of Attitudes Toward Migrants on Migrant Skill Composition

Avdiu, Besart - 2018

I investigate the effect of attitudes toward migrants on the average skill composition of immigrants in destination countries. A model is presented showing that negative attitudes toward migrants can reduce the average skill composition. The intuition for the result is that the highly skilled...

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The Labor Market Impact of Undocumented Immigrants : Job Creation vs. Job Competition

Albert, Christoph - 2017

This paper studies the labor market impact of documented and undocumented immigration in a model with search frictions and non-random hiring. Since they accept lower wages, firms obtain a higher match surplus from hiring immigrants rather than natives. Therefore, immigration results in the...

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Competition for Migrants in a Federation : Tax or Transfer Competition?

Koethenbuerger, Marko - 2012

, countries compete in taxes for migrants. With asymmetric preferences, migration competition takes place in income support levels … results are relevant, e.g., for federal policies that tackle inefficient migration competition and for evaluating whether a … country may wish to adopt unilateral ‘migration-purchase' policies …

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MPC Heterogeneity and Household Balance Sheets

Fagereng, Andreas - 2019

We use sizeable lottery prizes in Norwegian administrative panel data to characterize households' marginal propensities to consume (MPCs). Our main contribution is to document how MPCs vary with household characteristics and prize size, and how lottery prizes are spent and saved over time. We...

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The Consumption Effects of the 2007-2008 Financial Crisis : Evidence from Household-Level Data

Jensen, Thais - 2015

Did the financial crisis spread from distressed banks to households through a contraction of the credit supply? We study this question with a dataset that contains observations on all accounts in Danish banks as well as comprehensive information about individual account holders and banks. We...

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Immigration, Fertility, and Human Capital : A Model of Economic Decline of the West

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2011

I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous population, and incentives for investment in human capital combine to predict the decline of the West. In particular, indigenous low-skilled workers lose from unskilled...

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Migration Background and Educational Tracking : Is There a Double Disadvantage for Second-Generation Immigrants?

Lüdemann, Elke - 2010

Research on immigrants' educational disadvantages largely focuses on differences in student achievement tests. Exploiting data from the German PIRLS extension, we find that second-generation immigrants face additional disadvantages with respect to grades and teacher recommendations for secondary...

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