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The impact of migration on family left behind : estimation in presence of intra-household selection of migrants
Murard, Elie - 2019
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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Does the desire to remit foster integration? : evidence from migrants in Spain
Falco, Chiara; Göbel, Kristin - In: Economics letters 137 (2015), pp. 131-134
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Heterogeneous immigrants and foreign direct investment : the role of language skills
Lücke, Matthias; Heidland, Tobias - 2015
We investigate the interplay of language skills and immigrant stocks in determining bilateral FDI out-stocks of OECD reporting countries. Applying a Poisson panel estimator to 2004-2011 data, we find a robust positive effect of bilateral immigrants on bilateral FDI – provided that residents of...
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Immigrants, labor market performance, and social insurance
Bratsberg, Bernt; Raaum, Oddbjørn; Røed, Knut - 2014
Using longitudinal data from the date of arrival, we study long‐term labor market and social insurance outcomes for all major immigrant cohorts to Norway since 1970. Immigrants from high-income countries performed as natives, while labor migrants from low‐income source countries had...
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Labour migrant adjustments in the aftermath of the financial crisis
Bratsberg, Bernt; Raaum, Oddbjørn; Røed, Knut - 2014
after the crisis. Although we find that negative labour demand shocks raise the probability of return migration, the …
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Does foreign language proficiency foster migration of young individuals within the European Union?
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Kuehn, Zoë - 2014
, we test whether and how much language proficiency determines migration flows across Europe. The European Union with …
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Are immigrants competing with natives in the Italian labour market? : the employment effect
Venturini, Alessandra; Villosio, Claudia - 2002
Gavosto, Venturini, Villosio (1999) find that the impact of foreign workers on the wage of natives was positive. Such a result was partly to be expected, and therefore the effect of immigrants on native employment is analyzed here. Two aspects of the unemployment experience are taken into...
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A joint hazard-longitudinal model of the timing of migration, immigrant quality, and labor market assimilation
Jain, Apoorva; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2017
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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Immigrant labor market integration across admission classes
Bratsberg, Bernt; Raaum, Oddbjørn; Røed, Knut - 2017
We examine patterns of labor market integration across immigrant groups. The study draws on Norwegian longitudinal administrative data covering labor earnings and social insurance claims over a 25‐year period and presents a comprehensive picture of immigrant‐native employment and social...
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All that glitters is not gold : wages and education for US immigrants
Bertoli, Simone; Stillman, Steven - 2019
Many destination countries consider implementing points-based migration systems as a way to improve migrants' quality …
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