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Why Birthright Citizenship Matters for Immigrant Children : Impacts on Parental Educational Choices

Felfe, Christina - 2016

Immigrant children often face educational disadvantages that stem from their parents' decision-making. For example, in many immigrant-receiving countries, immigrants are less likely than the native-born to enroll their children in preschool programs or enable them access to higher education....

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What Do Immigrants Value Most About Switzerland? Evidence of the Relative Importance of Income Taxes

Morger, Mario - 2013

This study investigates whether migrants, once they have decided to move to Switzerland, prefer to settle in … indicate that income taxes are a significant pull factor for international migration decisions. The same is true with respect … to intra-national migration. However, dominance analysis suggests that the relative impact of taxes compared to other …

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Selective Outmigration and the Estimation of Immigrants' Earning Profiles

Dustmann, Christian - 2014

immigrants is selective both in terms of migrants' individual characteristics and their economic outcomes. We then examine the …

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Immigration and Entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015

is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an …

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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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Speaking in Numbers : The Effect of Reading Performance on Math Performance Among Immigrants

Isphording, Ingo E.; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2021

This paper is the first to estimate a causal effect of immigrant students’ reading performance on their math performance. To overcome endogeneity issues due to unobserved ability, we apply an IV approach exploiting variation in age-at-arrival and the linguistic distance between origin and...

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Explaining the Body Mass Index Gaps between Turkish Immigrants and Germans in West Germany 2002-2012 : A Decomposition Analysis of Socio-Economic Causes

Dang, Rui - 2021

In this paper, we decompose body mass index (BMI) differences between Turkish immigrants and Germans in West Germany for women and men. We focus on isolating the part of BMI differences that can be explained by differences in observed socioeconomic status from the part attributable to...

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Institutional Determinants of Intergenerational Education Transmission - Comparing Alternative Mechanisms for Natives and Immigrants

Bauer, Philipp; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2021

We use census data on 26 Swiss cantons to determine the association of educational institutions with the intergenerational transmission of education. We test whether education transmission is higher when children enter kindergarten and school earlier and when tracking occurs at a later age. In...

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Collective Labor Supply of Native Dutch and Immigrant Households in the Netherlands

Klaveren, Chris van; van Praag, B.M.S; Maassen van den … - 2021

support this idea. In general, the wage elasticities of Dutch, Turkish and Surinamese/Antillean households are comparable. Men …

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Taxing Pensions of an Internationally Mobile Labor Force : Portability Issues and Taxation Options

Holzmann, Robert - 2016

There is a rising share of individuals spending at least some part of their working life abroad and acquiring pension rights. While the portability of pensions and other social benefits has received some analytical attention over the recent decade there is currently limited analytical guidance...

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