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Remittances and informal work
Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2016
This paper studies the effects of remittances on informal employment in the migrants' countries of origin, looking both … transition economies in 2009, I find that receiving remittances increases the likelihood of working informally. At the regional … level, high prevalence of remittances is associated with a higher likelihood of informal work among non-migrant households …
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Split decisions : family finance when a policy discontinuity allocates overseas work
Clemens, Michael A.; Tiongson, Erwin R. - 2012
entrepreneurship. Remittances appear to overwhelm household splitting as a causal mechanism. -- migration ; households ; remittances …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009672252
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Migration's income and poverty impact has been underestimated
Schiff, Maurice W. (contributor) - 2006
This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First, existing studies have typically overlooked a feature of migration that should be taken into account in estimating its impact, namely the fact that migration changes the size of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003310960
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Immigration and housing rents in American cities
Saiz, Albert (contributor) - 2006
Is there a local economic impact of immigration? Immigration pushes up rents and housing values in US destination cities. The positive association of rent growth and immigrant inflows is pervasive in time series for all metropolitan areas. I use instrumental variables based on a "shift-share" of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003339782
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Immigration and housing booms : evidence from Spain
González, Libertad; Ortega, Francesc - 2009
We estimate empirically the effect of immigration on house prices and residential construction activity in Spain over the period 1998-2008. This decade is characterized by both a spectacular housing market boom and a stunning immigration wave. We exploit the variation in immigration across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879367
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Does racism affect a migrant's choice of destination?
Henry, Ruby - 2009
I explicitly introduce racial conflict and cultural attitudes on racial diversity as determinants of destination choice to test their continued relevance to African Americans. I construct several measures of racial intolerance towards African Americans using hate crime activity and the feelings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003892770
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Ethnic concentration and language fluency of immigrants in Germany
Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - 2010
Studies that investigate the effect of the regional ethnic composition on immigrant outcomes have been complicated by the self-selection of ethnic minorities into specific neighbourhoods. We analyse the impact of own-ethnic concentration on the language proficiency of immigrants by exploiting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003939170
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Dialects, cultural identity, and economic exchange
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - 2010
We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003939183
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Right to buy... time to move? : investigating the effect of the right to buy on moving behaviour in the UK
Ham, Maarten van; Williamson, Lee; Feijten, Peteke; … - 2010
One of the goals of the Right to Buy (RTB) was to stimulate labour migration by removing the debilitating effect of social housing on geographical mobility. This is the first study to examine rigorously whether the Right to Buy legislation did indeed 'free-up' those in social housing who bought...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008796487
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Social mobility : is there an advantage in being English in Scotland?
Ham, Maarten van; Findlay, Allan M.; Manley, David; … - 2010
This paper seeks to unpick the complex effects of migration, country of birth, and place of residence in Scotland on individual success in the labour market. We pay specific attention to the labour force experience of English-born residents in Scotland, whom the cross sectional literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941784