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Immigrants in many countries have lower employment rates and lower earnings than natives. We study whether a more … liberal access to citizenship improves the economic integration of immigrants. Our analysis relies on two major immigration …
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ethnic identity on the immigrants’ employment outcomes. Using rich survey data from France and relying on a polychoric … identities. The paper investigates the impact of the ethnic identity measures on the employment outcomes of immigrants in France …. The results show that having multiple identities improves the employment outcomes of the migrants and contribute to help …
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We propose an immigration policy based on the model of cooperatives. Incoming migrants have to acquire a participation … seekers get back the money paid for the certificate. Immigration is therewith regulated more efficiently than today. Not all …
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The vast literature on the effects of immigration on wages and employment is plagued by likely endogeneity and … accounting for human capital endowments. Our analysis confirms the previous finding of limited effect of immigration on …
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differently in a host country's labor market, we examine employment and wages for these groups over time after arrival. There is … in employment rates than it is in wages. We also discuss how refugees are distinct in terms of other factors affecting …
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Using the New Immigrant Survey, we investigate the impact of immigrant women’s own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country on their labor supply and wages in the US. Women migrating from higher female labor supply countries work more in the US. Most of...
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We analyze whether second generation immigrants have different political preferences relative to observationally identical host country's citizens. Using data on individual voting behavior in 22 European countries between 2001 and 2017 we characterize each vote on a left-right scale using...
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How do political preferences and voting behaviors respond to information coming from abroad? Focusing on the international migration network, I document that opinion changes at the origins spill over to 1st- and 2nd-generation immigrants abroad. Local diasporas, social media, and family ties to...
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employment gaps between immigrant and native men decline after arrival, they remain large for most cohorts; the average gap after … systematic trend. Still, economic conditions do matter, and employment collapsed in some cohorts after structural shocks hit the …
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We study how job mobility, firms, and firm-ladder climbing can shape immigrants’ labor market success. Our context is the mass migration of former Soviet Union Jews to Israel during the 1990s. Once in Israel, these immigrants faced none of the legal barriers that are typically posed by...
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