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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 profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many - if not most - migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...
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The impact of technological change on immigration and immigrants
Giesing, Yvonne - 2023
We study the effects of technological change on immigration flows as well as the labor market outcomes of migrants … highly automated economy and the main destination for migrants in Europe. We apply an instrumental variable strategy and … identify how robots decrease the wage of migrants across all skill groups, while neither having a significant impact on the …
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Self-selection in physical and mental health among older intra-European migrants
Constant, Amelie; Milewski, Nadja - 2020
The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the host country, may suffer from serious cultural biases. Our study evades such biases by utilizing a destination-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to...
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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence
Constant, Amelie - 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...
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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 … 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 …
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The cushioning effect of immigrant mobility
Özgüzel, Cem - 2021
employment and wage of natives. I use a modified shift-share instrument based on past settlements to claim causality. Employment … effects were driven by increased entries to employment, while wage effects were limited to natives that were already employed …
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Can and should the EU's Eastern Partnership be saved?
Thorvaldur Gylfason; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; … - 2014
the EU, the paper shows that the Eastern Partnership countries, including Ukraine, by far the largest in the group, gain …
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Do immigrants affect crime? : evidence from panel data for Germany
Maghularia, Rita; Übelmesser, Silke - 2019
The paper analyses the empirical relationship between immigrants and crime using panel data for 391 German administrative districts between 2003 and 2016. Employing different standard panel estimation methods, we show that there is no positive association between the immigrant rate and the crime...
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Social networks, ethnicity, and entrepreneurship
Kerr, William R.; Mandorff, Martin - 2016
States cluster in specific business sectors. For example, the concentration of Korean self-employment in dry cleaners is 34 …
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Immigration, regional conditions, and crime : evidence from an allocation policy in Germany
Piopiunik, Mark; Ruhose, Jens - 2015
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, more than 3 million people with German ancestors immigrated to Germany under a special law granting immediate citizenship. Exploiting the exogenous allocation of ethnic German immigrants by German authorities across regions upon arrival, we find that...
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