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can be explained by increases in the returns to a college education. However, we find increasing intermarriage premiums …
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the current literature by analyzing the role of intermarriage in intergenerational transmission of culture and its … intermarried families stresses the importance of intermarriage in assimilation process. Our results are robust to different … specifications and estimation strategies. -- culture ; labor supply ; immigrant women ; intermarriage …
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) failure of the exclusion restriction assumption, (iv) inconsistency in the definition of employment variable across men and … women (and a problematic definition of employment of women), (v) elementary mistakes in data cleaning, RDD estimation, and … null policy effects on psychological violence and almost null effects on women's employment, and positive but statistically …
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Immigration is one of the most important policy debates in Western countries. However, one aspect of the debate is … often mischaracterized by accusations that higher levels of immigration lead to higher levels of crime. The evidence, based … on empirical studies of many countries, indicates that there is no simple link between immigration and crime, but …
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integration programmes, family policies and career and diversity plans, the native-migrant employment gap in Belgium is still one … investigates how the motive for migrating to Belgium contributes to the native-migrant employment gap. Based on data from the 2014 … employment outcomes of labour migrants (with and without a job prior to migration), family reunion migrants, student migrants and …
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Upon arrival to a new country, many immigrants face job downgrading, a phenomenon describing workers being in jobs far below where they would be assigned based on their skills. Downgrading leads to immigrants receiving lower returns to the same skills than natives. The level of downgrading could...
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demand and technology, production expansion, and specialization of native workers as immigration rises. …
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This paper examines effects of the U.S. Immigration Act of 1990 on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and … for natives. We examine effects of the policy on STEM degree completion, STEM occupational choice, and employment rates … STEM flows. We find that the Immigration Act changed natives' skill investment and utilization in three ways: (1) it pushed …
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of immigration to strengthen financial sustainability. We look at a particularly challenging case, namely that of Denmark …
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This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ …
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