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We build a model of conflict in which two groups contest a resource and must decide on the optimal allocation of labor … involved in the conflict by transferring financial resources to its origin country. We find that the diaspora influences the … conflict equilibrium, the two groups of residents prefer to negotiate a peaceful settlement if there exists a sharing rule that …
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Using population-wide Swedish register data on cognitive abilities and productive personality traits, we show that employment growth has been monotonically skill-biased in terms of these general-purpose intellectual skills, despite a simultaneous (polarizing) decline in middle-wage jobs....
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wellbeing. An increase of 1% life expectancy is equivalent to more than 5% increase in yearly GDP. One year of internal conflict …
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An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using exogenous refugee supply shocks as natural experiments. Several studies have reached conflicting conclusions about the effects of noted refugee waves such as the Mariel Boatlift in...
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There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....
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This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.
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independently elicit their "ethnicity" (or Hispanic origin) and their "ancestry". We investigate whether different patterns of … the ancestry question. How U.S.-born Mexicans report their ethnicity/ancestry is strongly associated with measures of … especially high for men and women who claim a Mexican ancestry but report their ethnicity as "not Hispanic". Further …
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importance of network effects for groups broken out by race, ethnicity, and various measures of skill, for networks generated by … ; race ; ethnicity ; immigrants …
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This paper documents where immigrants who enter the U.S. with different types of visas ("green cards") choose to live initially and what determines those location choices. Using population data on immigrants from the Immigration and Naturalization Service from 1971 to 2000, matched to data on...
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the same ethnicity. Finally, assortative matching on education in the marriage market suggests that immigrants may be … willing to trade similarities in ethnicity for similarities in education when evaluating potential spouses. Using a simple …
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