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migration duration for patterns of selection by integrating two workhorses of the labor literature, a search model and a Roy … cognitive ability. Longer migration episodes lead to stronger positive selection on both education and ability, as its … associated jobs involve finer employee-employer matching and offer greater returns to experience. Networks are more valuable for …
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This paper reexamines the literature on the impact of migration on household members left behind at origin. The … empirical problem previous studies address is the self-selection of households into migration, i.e. the endogenous decision as …, 1994; Rubin, 1974). I show that the point-identification of the causal impact of migration requires strong behavioral …
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This paper studies how return migration intentions affect immigrants' behavior. Using a unique French data set, we …
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This paper investigates the impact of internal migration on child labor outcomes in Brazil. We develop a theoretical … model and evaluate it on children aged 10 to 14 using two decades of Census data. In our model, migration impacts child … individual-level child-labor analysis with an empirical study of the labor-market impact of internal migration within Brazil. We …
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The objective of this paper is to analyse and explain the factors behind the observed differences in skill mismatches (vertical and horizontal) between natives and immigrants in EU countries. Using microdata from the 2007 wave of the Adult Education Survey (AES), different probit models are...
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and matching model in which employees, either native or nonnative, are heterogeneous with respect to their skill level and …
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This paper contributes to the analysis of the integration of immigrants in the Canadian labour market by focusing in two relatively new dimensions. We combine the large samples of the restricted version of the Canadian Census (1991-2006) with both a new measure of linguistic proximity of the...
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This paper develops and estimates a joint hazard-longitudinal (JHL) model of the timing of migration and labor market … endogenous age of entry in estimating the returns to years since migration by allowing cross-equation correlations of random …
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Using nationally representative workplace data for Britain we identify the partial correlation between workplace wages and the percentage of migrants employed at a workplace. We find wages are lower in workplaces employing a higher percentage of migrants, but only when those migrants are non-EEA...
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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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