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Loss of peers and individual worker performance : evidence from H-1B visa denials
Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Doran, Kirk B.; Marinoni, Astrid; … - 2022
migrants, exploiting the unexpected increased denials of H-1B visa extensions in the United States beginning in 2017. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013473268
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Female migration : a way out of discrimination?
Ruyssen, Ilse; Salomone, Sara - 2015
In light of the recent feminization of migration, we empirically explore to what extent worldwide female migration can be explained by perceived gender discrimination. Thanks to unique individual level data, we track women's willingness and preparation to emigrate from 150 countries between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374200
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Why Is the Roy-Borjas model unable to predict international migrant selection on education? : evidence from urban and rural mexico
Leopold, Stephan; Ruhose, Jens; Wiederhold, Simon - 2023
The Roy-Borjas model predicts that international migrants are less educated than nonmigrants because the returns to … predictions and empirical evidence can be resolved when the human capital of migrants is assessed using a two-dimensional measure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014320684
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Ethnic identity and the employment outcomes of immigrants : evidence from France
Delaporte, Isaure - 2019
. The results show that having multiple identities improves the employment outcomes of the migrants and contribute to help …
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Social networks, ethnicity, and entrepreneurship
Kerr, William R.; Mandorff, Martin - 2016
We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United States cluster in specific business sectors. For example, the concentration of Korean self-employment in dry cleaners is 34 times greater than other immigrant groups, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011568736
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Growing up in ethnic enclaves : language proficiency and educational attainment of immigrant children
Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 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...
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Ethnic enclaves and welfare cultures : quasi-experimental evidence
Åslund, Olof (contributor); Fredriksson, Peter (contributor) - 2005
We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy. We distinguish between the quantity of contacts the number of individuals of the same ethnicityand the quality of contacts welfare use among members of the ethnic group. OLS...
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Diasporas
Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Özden, Çağlar - 2009
to higher concentration of low-skill migrants. Interestingly, diasporas explain majority of the variability of migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824981
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Cultural distance and ethnic civil conflict
Guarnieri, Eleonora - 2023
Ethnically diverse countries are more prone to conflict, but why do some groups engage in conflict while others do not? I show that civil conflict is explained by ethnic groups' cultural distance to the central government: an increase in cultural distance, proxied by linguistic distance,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014332085
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Out of the shadows and into the classroom : immigrant legalization, hispanic schooling and hispanic representation on school boards
Sabet, Navid - 2023
I exploit the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), which legalized millions of Hispanic migrants in the USA …, to study the impact of immigrant legalization on schooling outcomes. Although undocumented migrants are entitled to … public schools with greater exposure to IRCA migrants. This effect is driven by increased Hispanic enrollment, while whites …
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