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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox and Health Convergence
Constant, Amelie F. - 2017
The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943173
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Why Go to France or Germany, if You Could as Well Go to the UK or the US? Selective Features of Immigration to Four Major OECD Countries
Geis, Wido - 2008
of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all …, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012769704
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012949378
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Minimum Wages and the Labor Market Effects of Immigration
Edo, Anthony - 2017
We exploit the non-linearity in the level of minimum wages across US States created by the coexistence of federal and state regulations to investigate how minimum wages affect the labor market impact of immigration. We find that the effects of immigration on labor market outcomes of native...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951556
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International Emigrant Selection on Occupational Skills
Patt, Alexander - 2017
that Mexican migrants to the United States have higher manual skills and lower cognitive skills than non-migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951826
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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 … hypothesis, I use survey data on attitudes toward migrants as well as data on migrant stocks by education level and origin …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920757
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Growing Up in Ethnic Enclaves : Language Proficiency and Educational Attainment of Immigrant Children
Danzer, Alexander - 2018
Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across German regions during the 1960s and 1970s in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012913554
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Dynamic Effects of Co-Ethnic Networks on Immigrants' Economic Success
Battisti, Michele - 2018
This paper investigates how the size of co-ethnic networks at the time of arrival affect the economic success of immigrants in Germany. Applying panel analysis with a large set of fixed effects and controls, we isolate the association between initial network size and long-run immigrant outcomes....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012914677
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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/10013009865
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Bitterness in Life and Attitudes Towards Immigration
Poutvaara, Panu - 2015
Integration of immigrants is a two-way process, the success of which depends both on immigrants and on natives. We provide new evidence on the determinants of individual attitudes towards immigration, using data from the 2005 and 2010 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel. In particular, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009880