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Ethnic identity and the employment outcomes of immigrants : evidence from France
Delaporte, Isaure - 2019
The objective of this paper is twofold: first, to determine the immigrants’ ethnic identity, i.e. the degree of identification to the culture and society of the country of origin and the host country and second, to investigate the impact of ethnic identity on the immigrants’ employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022260
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Immigration, search, and redistribution : a quantitative assessment of native welfare
Battisti, Michele; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Peri, Giovanni; … - 2014
We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search frictions, wage bargaining, and a redistributive welfare state. Our quantitative analysis suggests that, in all 20 countries studied, immigration attenuates the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418118
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Heterogeneous technology diffusion and ricardian trade patterns
Kerr, William R. - 2016
immigrant communities in the United States for identification. The latter instruments are developed by combining panel variation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011568775
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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence
Constant, Amelie - 2017
insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and … host country, converging to the health of natives or becoming even worse. A deeper understanding of immigrant health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735974
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Immigration, unemployment and wages : new causality evidence from the United Kingdom
Tunali, Çiğdem Börke; Fidrmuc, Jan; Campos, Nauro - 2017 - This version: April 4, 2017
The vast literature on the effects of immigration on wages and employment is plagued by likely endogeneity and aggregation biases. Ours is among the first papers to address both of these issues by means of causality analysis and by accounting for human capital endowments. Our analysis confirms...
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Indian entrepreneurial success in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom
Fairlie, Robert W.; Krashinsky, Harry A.; … - 2013
Indian immigrants in the United States and other wealthy countries are successful in entrepreneurship. Using Census … than any other immigrant group. Approximately half of the average difference in income between Indian entrepreneurs and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010212363
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The impact of COVID-19 on small business owners: the first three months after social-distancing restrictions
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
industry compositions partly placed these groups at a higher risk of business activity losses. Immigrant business owners …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012291885
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Liquidity constraints, household wealth, and entrepreneurship revisited
Fairlie, Robert W.; Krashinsky, Harry A. - 2012 - Current Draft: August 2011
A large body research shows a positive relationship between wealth and entrepreneurship and interprets the relationship … entrepreneurship and a different measure of wealth - net housing equity - for the two groups. Second, we examine the liquidity … study whether changes in housing prices affect self-employment entry. -- entrepreneurship ; liquidity constraints ; housing …
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Estimating immigrant earnings profiles when migrations are temporary
Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2016
The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011481390
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The effect of language training on immigrants' economic integration : empirical evidence from France
Lochmann, Alexia; Rapoport, Hillel; Speciale, Biagio - 2017
We examine the impact of language training on the economic integration of immigrants in France. The assignment to this training, offered by the French Ministry of the Interior, depends mainly on a precise rule: the training is available when the test score of an initial language exam is below a...
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