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Aggregate-Level Migration Studies as a Tool for Forecasting Future Migration Streams
Schmidt, Christoph M.; Fertig, Michael - 2021
Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well … understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc … application to the case of EU-enlargement and the ensuing migration streams to be expected from Eastern Europe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321249
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How Do Industries and Firms Respond to Changes in Local Labor Supply?
dustmann, christian; Glitz, Albrecht - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2011
In this paper, we investigate how changes in the skill mix of local labor supply are absorbed by the economy. We distinguish between three adjustment mechanisms: through factor prices, through an expansion in the size of those production units that use the more abundant skill group more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009317939
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Immigration, Family Responsibilities and the Labor Supply of Skilled Native Women
Farré, Lidia; Gonzalez, Libertad; Ortega, Francesc - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2009
This paper investigates the effects of Spain's large recent immigration wave on the labor supply of highly skilled native women. We hypothesize that female immigration led to an increase in the supply of affordable household services, such as housekeeping and child or elderly care. As a result,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009317956
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Immigration and Housing Booms: Evidence from Spain
Gonzalez, Libertad; Ortega, Francesc - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2009
We estimate empirically the effect of immigration on house prices and residential construction activity in Spain over the period 1998-2008. This decade is characterized by both a spectacular housing market boom and a stunning immigration wave. We exploit the variation in immigration across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009317962
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Low-skilled Immigration and Parenting Investments of College-educated Mothers in the United States: Evidence from Time-use Data
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Sevilla, Almudena - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2013
This paper uses several decades of US time-diary surveys to assess the impact of low-skilled immigration, through lower prices for commercial child care, on parental time investments. Using an instrumental variables approach that accounts for the endogenous location of immigrants, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010839549
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The Quality of Immigrant Source Country Educational Outcomes: Do they Matter in the Receiving Country?
Sweetman, Arthur; Li, Qing - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2013
International test scores are used to proxy the quality of source country educational outcomes and explain differences in the rate of return to schooling among immigrants in Canada. The average quality of educational outcomes in an immigrant’s source country and the rate of return to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011129919
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On the Effectiveness of SB1070 in Arizona
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Lozano, Fernando A. - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2014
We investigate the effectiveness of Arizona’s omnibus immigration law SB1070, which made it a misdemeanor crime for an alien to not carry proper documentation and asked police to determine the immigration status of any person suspected of being an illegal alien during a lawful stop. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011129936
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Immigration: The European Experience
dustmann, christian; Frattini, Tommaso - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2011
This paper starts with a brief historical overview of immigration in Europe. We then provide a comprehensive analysis of the skill structures of immigrants and their labor market integration in the different European countries, their position in the wage distribution, and the situation of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421742
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The Short- and Long-Run Determinants of Less- Educated Immigrant Flows into U.S. States
Simpson, Nicole B.; Sparber, Chad - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012
We use a gravity model of migration and alternative estimation strategies to analyse how income differentials affect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010570358
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Miserable Migrants? Natural Experiment Evidence on International Migration and Objective and Subjective Well-Being
Stillman, Steven; Gibson, John; McKenzie, David Mckenzie; … - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012
well-being by moving to where incomes are higher. But effects of migration on subjective well-being are less clear, with … migration lottery in order to experimentally estimate the impact of migration on objective and subjective well-being. The … results show that international migration brings large improvements in objective well-being, in terms of incomes and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010575135