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This paper experimentally examines the employment opportunities of Austrians with and without migration background who … matched photos as distinct visual cues. While results document employment discrimination for all groups with migration …
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institutions to investigate its impact on student sorting, migration and enrollment. We find that institutions under the …
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This paper considers the relationship between international migration and gender discrimination through the lens of … decision-making power over intrahousehold resource allocation. The endogeneity of migration is addressed with a difference …
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Recent immigration policies have created massive uncertainty for international students to obtain F-1 visas. Yet, before the COVID-19 pandemic, student visa applicants already faced an approximately 27 percent refusal rate that varies by time and region. Using data on the universe of SAT takers...
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Over the past decades, globalization has led to a huge increase in the migration of workers, as well as students. This … paper develops a simple two-step model that describes the decisions of an individual vis-à-vis education and migration, and … presents a unified model, wherein the two migration decisions are combined into a single, unique model. This paper shows that …
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local labor markets. This chapter uses data from the 2008 and 2009 migrant surveys of the Rural-Urban Migration in China …
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This paper establishes a new fact about immigration policies: legalization has long-term effects on formal employment of undocumented immigrants and their assimilation. We exploit the broad amnesty enacted in Italy in 2002 together with rich survey data collected in 2011 on a representative...
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Why do so many students mismatch when choosing a college? A plausible hypothesis is a lack of information about the likelihood of admission. This study contributes to the literature on mismatch by testing whether public university automatic admissions policies mitigate academic undermatch and...
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Recruiting agents, or "programs" costly screen “applicants” in matching processes, and congestion in a market increases … programs; however, they may harm match quality. In a multiple-elicitation experiment conducted in a real-life matching market …
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How can colleges find successful applicants? Criteria such as GPA, interviews, essays, and tests provide information about candidates, but which work and why? We shed light on these questions using unique data on the universe of objective and subjective rankings of all college applicants in...
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