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Immigrants at New Destinations : How They Fare and Why
Carneiro, Anabela Jesus Moreira - 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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Labor Market Effects of Intrauterine Exposure to Nutritional Deficiency : Evidence from Administrative Data on Muslim Immigrants in Denmark
Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013042975
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Are All of the Good Men Fathers? The Effect of Having Children on Earnings
Kunze, Astrid - 2014
This study reconsiders the empirical question of whether men's earnings increase because of children. Large Norwegian register data are used for brother and twin pairs who are followed over their life cycle from their first entry into the labour market. The data permit family-fixed effects to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055219
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How Does Parental Divorce Affect Children's Long-Term Outcomes?
Frimmel, Wolfgang - 2016
Numerous papers report a negative association between parental divorce and child outcomes. To provide evidence whether this correlation is driven by a causal effect, we exploit idiosyncratic variation in the extent of sexual integration in fathers' workplaces: Fathers who encounter more women in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990882
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Parental Child Care Time, Income and Subjective Well-Being : A Multidimensional Polarization Approach for Germany
Merz, Joachim - 2019
Neither market income nor consumption expenditure provides an adequate picture of individual standard of living. It is … polarization effects of parental child care where compensation/substitution of time for parental child care versus income is … multidimensional polarization intensity information for the poor and the rich and disentangles the single time and income contribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870361
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Acculturation Identity and Labor Market Outcomes
Nekby, Lena; Rodin, Magnus - 2021
This paper explores the identity formation of a cohort of students with immigrant backgrounds in Sweden and the consequences of identity for subsequent labor market outcomes. Unique for this study is that identity is defined according to a two-dimensional acculturation framework based on both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317004
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Determinants of Integration and its Impact on the Economic Success of Immigrants : A Case Study of the Turkish Community in Berlin
Danzer, Alexander M.; Ulku, Hulya - 2021
promote income. Using endogenous switching regression models, we show that local familial networks increase the income of …
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Intergenerational Persistence in Income and Social Class : The Impact of Within-Group Inequality
Blanden, Jo - 2011
Family income is found to be more closely related to sons' earnings for a cohort born in 1970 compared to one born in … which relates mobility in measured family income/earnings to mobility in social class. Building on this framework we then … the intergenerational persistence of the permanent component of income that is unrelated to social class. We reject the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117185
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War and Stature : Growing Up During the Nigerian Civil War
Akresh, Richard - 2011
The Nigerian civil war of 1967-70 was precipitated by secession of the Igbo-dominated south-eastern region to create the state of Biafra. It was the first civil war in Africa, the predecessor of many. We investigate the legacies of this war four decades later. Using variation across ethnicity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117195
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The Long-Run Effects of Recessions on Education and Income
Stuart, Bryan A. - 2019
This paper examines the long-run effects of the 1980-1982 recession on education and income. Using confidential Census … capita in their county of birth reduces four-year college degree attainment by 10 percent and income in adulthood by 3 … graduates and $42-$87 billion less earned income per year …
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