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Subjective Well-being, Income, and Ethnicity in Slovakia

Želinský, Tomáš - 2021

well-being associated with a marginal increase in income is larger for poorer than for richer populations. This hypothesis … that the correlation between income and satisfaction is greater for the lower-income group (the Roma) than for the higher-income … group (majority population). Further, the correlation between income and emotional well-being does not differ between the …

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On the road to integration? Immigrant’s demand for informal (& formal) education

Coniglio, Nicola D.; Hoxhaj, Rezart; Jayet, Hubert - 2019

In this paper we study the allocation of time devoted to informal learning and education, i.e. those activities carried out during leisure time and outside formal education courses which boost individuals’ human and social capital. For immigrants the private investment in these activities is...

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Social Contacts, Dutch Language Proficiency and Immigrant Economic Performance in the Netherlands

Chiswick, Barry R.; Wang, Zhiling - 2019

Using longitudinal data on immigrants in the Netherlands fromthe survey 'Social Position and Use of Public Facilities by Immigrants' (SPVA) for the years 1991, 1994, 1998, 2002, we examined the impacts of social contacts and Dutch language proficiency on adult foreign-born men's earnings,...

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Self-employment as a stepping stone to better labour market matching: a comparison between immigrants and natives

Ulceluse, Magdalena - 2018

The paper investigates whether self-employment represents a way to reduce overeducation and improve labour market matching, in a comparative analysis between immigrants and natives. Using the EU Labour Force Survey for the year 2012, and controlling for a list of demographic characteristics and...

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The Financial Decisions of Immigrant and Native Households: Evidence from Italy

Bertocchi, Graziella; Brunetti, Marianna; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2018

Using rich Italian data for the period 2006-2014, we document sizeable gaps between native and immigrant households with respect to wealth holdings and financial decisions. Immigrant household heads hold less net wealth than native, but only above the median of the wealth distribution, with...

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Immigrant overeducation across two generations: The role of gender and part-time work

Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2024

A large body of literature shows that first-generation immigrants born in developing countries experience a higher likelihood of being overeducated than natives (i.e. immigrant overeducation). However, evidence is remarkably scarce when it comes to the overeducation of second-generation...

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Wage Distributions in Origin Societies and Occupational Choices of Immigrant Generations in the US

Zhan, Crystal - 2020

This paper studies the occupational selection among generations of immigrants in the United States and links their choices to the occupational wage distribution in their country of origin. The empirical results suggest that individuals are more likely to take up an occupation in the US that was...

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The Economics of Being LGBT. A Review: 2015-2020

Drydakis, Nick - 2021

This paper reviews studies on LGBT workplace outcomes published between 2015 and 2020. In terms of earnings differences, in the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia, gay men were found to experience earnings penalties of 7% in comparison to heterosexual men, bisexual men experienced earnings...

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Moving Policies Toward Racial and Ethnic Equality: The Case of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Jales, Hugo B.; Liu, Judith; … - 2023

We analyze the role played by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in alleviating or exacerbating inequality across racial and ethnic groups in food expenditures and in the resources needed to meet basic food needs (the "food resource gap"). To do this, we propose a simple...

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Is Self-Employment for Migrants? Evidence from Italy

Brunetti, Marianna; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2023

Using a unique Italian dataset covering the period 2004-2020, we assess the immigrant-native gap in entrepreneurship and investigate channels behind it. The data allows us to account for many observable characteristics as well as for risk aversion, which is usually not observed, yet crucial for...

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