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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...
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immigrant communities in the United States for identification. The latter instruments are developed by combining panel variation …
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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 …
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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 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 …
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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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The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career …
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initial network size and long-run immigrant outcomes. We also look at those who were assigned to an initial location …
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employment gaps between immigrant and native men decline after arrival, they remain large for most cohorts; the average gap after …
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' downgrading, with new implications for immigrant cohort effects and assimilation profiles. …
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