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This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study labor market assimilation of self-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage/salary workers are estimated. To control for endogenous sorting into the sectors, models of the self-employment...
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The labor market "quality" of immigrants is a subject of debate among immigration researchers, and a major public … in the immigration flows from different countries, sampling error, and the effects of emigration – is fundamentally …
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We estimate the impact of immigration on the wages of natives in Ireland applying the technique proposed by Borjas … suggest that care should be exercised when applying this method as inaccurate impressions of the impact of immigration on …
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This paper examines the effect of immigration directly on the overall utility of natives. To the best of our knowledge … robust, positive effect of immigration on natives' well-being. The presence of confounding local labour market … characteristics has a negligible impact on the estimates. Furthermore, we find substantial evidence that the effect of immigration on …
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workplace and occupational segregation as partial explanations of the earnings gap is presented. Having allowed also for … relative unimportance of occupational segregation and the large remaining gender earnings gap suggest that stronger enforcement …
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In their survey of the literature on ethnic fractionalization and economic performance, Alesina and La Ferrara (JEL 2005) identify two main directions for future research. One is to improve the measurement of diversity and the other to treat diversity as an endogenous variable. This paper tries...
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different jobs; and the use of samples of workers prevents any reliable determination of either the extent of segregation or the … of the conditional gap. We find that one fifth of the gender pay gap results from segregation of workers across firms and … one fifth from job segregation. We also show that the widely documented glass ceiling effect operates mainly through …
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A history of the New Zealand immigration experience and policy is reviewed in this paper. Data from the 1981 and 1996 …, relative to migrants with non-English speaking background. …
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for which they are eligible? The answer is politically important, but because most current research on immigration and …
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