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Economic preferences are important for lifetime outcomes such as educational achievements, health status, or labor market success. We present a holistic view of how economic preferences are related within families. In an experiment with 544 families (and 1,999 individuals) from rural Bangladesh...
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Economic preferences - like time, risk and social preferences - have been shown to be very influential for real-life outcomes, such as educational achievements, labor market outcomes, or health status. We contribute to the recent literature that has examined how and when economic preferences are...
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This paper investigates the causal pathways through which ethnic social networks influence individual naturalization. Using the complete-count Census of 1930, we digitize information on the exact residence of newly arrived immigrants in New York City. This allows us to define networks with a...
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sending countries are often undervalued. But migrants may foster trade, remittances, innovations, investments back home, and …. Policies in receiving developed countries towards migrants can enhance the positive impact of migration for development. Among … those are measures to support the early integration of migrants into the educational systems and in the labor markets …
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in the case of the Great Chinese Migration. However, the context of the identities of migrants and their adaption in the … labor market outcomes of migrants in China, the country with the largest record of internal mobility. Using instrumental … variable estimation, the study finds that identifying as local residents significantly increase migrants' hourly wages and …
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, and trade, as well as native consumption responses. Consumption patterns reflect how migrants integrate into their new …
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This paper examines the wage earnings of fully-employed previous refugee immigrants in Sweden. Using administrative employer-employee data from 1990 onwards, about 100,000 refugee immigrants who arrived between 1980 and 1996 and were granted asylum, are compared to a matched sample of...
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as local associates with higher migrants' hourly wages and lower hours worked, although monthly earnings seem to remain … largely unchanged. Migrants with strong local identity are more likely to use local networks in job search, and to obtain jobs …
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