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Strangers and foreigners : trust and attitudes toward citizenship
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo; Tedeschi, Gian Luca - 2022
We analyze the relationship between natives' attitudes towards citizenship acquisition for foreigners and trust. Our hypothesis is that, in sub-Saharan Africa, the slave trade represents the deep factor behind contemporary attitudes toward citizenship, with more intense exposure to historical...
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Occupational sorting and wage gaps of refugees
Baum, Christopher F.; Lööf, Hans; Stephan, Andreas; … - 2020
Refugee workers start low and adjust slowly to the wages of comparable natives. The innovative approach in this study using unique Swedish employeremployee data shows that the observed wage gap between established refugees and comparable natives is mainly caused by occupational sorting into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012222073
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Occupational sorting and wage gaps of refugees
Baum, Christopher F.; Lööf, Hans; Stephan, Andreas; … - 2020
Refugee workers start low and adjust slowly to the wages of comparable natives. The innovative approach in this study using unique Swedish employer-employee data shows that the observed wage gap between established refugees and comparable natives is mainly caused by occupational sorting into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012233550
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Estimating the wage premia of refugee immigrants : lessons from Sweden
Baum, Christopher F.; Lööf, Hans; Stephan, Andreas; … - 2024
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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Economic preferences and the self-selection of immigrants
Zhan, Crystal; Deole, Sumit S. - 2022
determinants for migration intention. In the paper, we combine data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, European Social Survey … their preferences. We find a higher migration propensity among individuals who are more altruistic, patient, and trusting …
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Changing patterns of son preference and fertility in Pakistan
Javed, Muhammad Rashid; Mughal, Mazhar - 2021
Using data from two representative Demographic and Health Surveys, we examine the change in son preference over the past three decades and its effects on Pakistani women's fertility. We analyse a number of indicators and employ different empirical methods to come up with strong and persistent...
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English skills, labour market status and earnings of Turkish women
Di Paolo, Antonio; Tansel, Aysıt - 2019
In this paper, we investigate the effect of the level of English skills on the labour market outcomes of Turkish women, using data from the Adult Education Survey of 2007. By adopting a bivariate equation framework, we jointly model the effect of English skills on labour market status and,...
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Female early marriage and son preference in Pakistan
Mughal, Mazhar; Javed, Muhammad Rashid; Lorey, Thierry - 2023
In this study, we employ pooled data from four rounds of Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey (PDHS) to examine whether, and to what extent, does the incidence of early marriage shape the married women's perspectives on gender preference associated with reproduction. We employ a number of...
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Unemployment of unskilled labor due to COVID-19 led restriction on migration and trade
Mandal, Biswajit; Chaudhuri, Saswati; Prasad, Alaka Shree - 2020
migration and trade. This paper aims to check the effect of such restrictions on the unemployment of unskilled labor in the … source country. In competitive general equilibrium framework with three goods and four factors restriction on migration …
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Challenged by migration : Europe's options
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2017
This paper examines the migration and labor mobility in the European Union and elaborates on their importance for the … that migration is beneficial is broken. This comes with a crisis of European institutions in general. Migration and labor … survive or collapse even if it solves its migration challenge. But it will most likely collapse, if it fails to solve the …
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