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Happy people have children : choice and self-selection into parenthood
Cetre, Sophie; Clark, Andrew E.; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2016
age of 30 and who have higher income. We also provide evidence of a positive selection into parenthood, whereby happier …
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Income and views on minimum living standards
Johnston, David; Menon, Nidhiya - 2021
This paper explores the association between income and stated views on minimum living standards; that is, views on … representative survey, we find the rich are less empathetic. In our baseline model, people at the bottom of the income distribution … report 10% more items as essential than do people at the top of the income distribution. The negative relationship between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604403
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Low-skilled immigrant entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009
-employed. Utilizing longitudinal data from the 1996, 2001 and 2004 Survey of Income and Program Participation panels, this paper analyzes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003916998
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Immigrants at new destinations : how they fare and why
Carneiro, Anabela; Fortuna, Natércia; Varejão, José M. - 2010
Using matched employer-employee data, we identify the determinants of immigrants’ earnings in the Portuguese labor market. Results previously reported for countries with a long tradition of hosting migrants are also valid in a new destination country. Two-thirds of the gap is attributable to...
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The economic progress of American Jewry : from 18th century merchants to 21st century professionals
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2009
This paper tracks the economic status of American Jewry over the past three centuries. It relies on qualitative material in the early period and quantitative data since 1890. The primary focus is on the occupational status of Jewish men and women, compared to non-Jews, with additional analyses...
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Chinese immigrants in the US labor market : effects of post-tiananmen immigration policy
Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline; Kerr, Emily - 2012
The Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 and ensuing government crackdown affected Chinese nationals not only at home but around the world. The U.S. government responded to the events in China by enacting multiple measures to protect Chinese nationals present in the U.S. It first suspended all...
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Work and money : payoffs by ethnic identity and gender
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
Upon arrival in the host country, immigrants undergo a fundamental identity crisis. Their ethnic identity being questioned, they can be classified into four states assimilation, integration, separation and marginalization. This is suggested by the ethnosizer, a newly established measure to...
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Self-employment and earnings among high-skilled immigrants in the United States
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2000
This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to analyze the labor market experience of high-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high-skilled occupations than natives, but the gap between the two...
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Colorism and immigrant earnings in the United States, 2015-2024
Hersch, Joni - 2024
Using data from the Current Populations Survey 2015-2024 matched to skin color data in the New Immigrant Survey, this article shows that immigrants from countries with darker skin color face a substantial earnings penalty. The penalty is similar to that found using 2003 data on individual...
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Labor market effects of intrauterine exposure to nutritional deficiency : evidence from administrative data on Muslim immigrants in Denmark
Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise; Tekin, Erdal; Greve, Jane - 2014
This paper examines whether nutritional disruptions experienced during the stage of fetal development impair an individual's labor market productivity later in life. We consider intrauterine exposure to the month of Ramadan as a natural experiment that might cause shocks to the inflow of...
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