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International trade and labor market integration of immigrants
Lodefalk, Magnus; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Tang, Aili - 2020
, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We … find a positive, yet heterogeneous, effect of trade on immigrant employment but no effect on immigrant wages. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012286158
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Commuting patterns, the spatial distribution of jobs and the gender pay gap in the U. S.
Gutierrez, Federico H. - 2018
husband and wife in relation to earnings and wages. It is argued that the cost of commuting is higher for women because they … lower wages. Using pooled data from the American Community Survey, the results indicate that 10% of the gender pay gap among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012156985
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It's the way people move! : labour migration as an adjustment device in Russia
Pastore, Francesco; Semerikova, Elena - 2020
This paper aims to assess the role of migration as an adjustment mechanism device to favor convergence across states and regions of Russia. In contrast to previous studies, we use variations in the population of a region as a proxy of its net migration rate and apply spatial econometric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012147367
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Immigrant supply of marketable child care and native fertility in Italy
Mariani, Rama Dasi; Rosati, Furio Camillo - 2021
The availability of child-care services has often been advocated as one of the instruments to counter the fertility decline observed in many high-income countries. In the recent past large inflows of lowskilled migrants have substantially increased the supply of child-care services. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012391757
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Immigration policy and remittance behaviour
Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Tchuente, Guy - 2021
This paper analyses the remittance behaviour of two cohorts of migrants who entered Australia before and after a policy change implemented in the 1990s, which tightened the entry requirements for a subgroup of applicants. We use a mix of a conditional difference-in-differences and OLS estimator...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497171
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Macroeconomic determinants of international migration to the UK
Forte, Giuseppe; Portes, Jonathan - 2017
result in a large fall in immigration from EEA countries to the UK. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114007
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Immigration policy and remittance behaviour
Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Tchuente, Guy - 2017
This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114931
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Immigration and unemployment in Europe : does the core-periphery dualism matter?
Esposito, Piero; Collignon, Stefan; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2019
In this paper, we assess the impact of immigration and unemployment for a sample of 15 EU countries between 1997 and … immigration on domestic unemployment in the short and in the long run. In the long run, immigration is found to reduce … unemployment in all peripheral-countries. In core countries, we find no long-run impact of immigration on unemployment due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012162043
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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence
Constant, Amelie - 2017
the host countries. Through a general literature review and examination of specific immigration countries, we provide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119651
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Learning from the origins
Yarkin, Alexander - 2023
How do political preferences and voting behaviors respond to information coming from abroad? Focusing on the international migration network, I document that opinion changes at the origins spill over to 1st- and 2nd-generation immigrants abroad. Local diasporas, social media, and family ties to...
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