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economic conditions. By focusing on immigrants in the US, we can consider the influence of work norms in a person's home … more sensitive to economic downturns among immigrants from countries where people place less importance on work. We also …
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This paper analyzes the occupational status and distribution of free women in the antebellum United States. It considers both their reported and unreported (imputed) occupations, using the 1/100 IPUMS files from the 1860 Census of Population. After developing and testing the model based on...
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transitions of workers with secondary and higher education. We focus on transitions from employment to unemployment and on job … Survey on Labour Participation and Unemployment (PLUS), we calculate three measures of vertical mismatch. This allows … unemployment risk, through a Routine Task Index (RTI) calculated on Italian data. Results indicate that mismatched workers are at …
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. Using the complete-count Census of 1930, we digitize information on the exact residence of newly arrived immigrants in New … has on the probability of immigrants to acquire citizenship a decade later. Our results indicate that the concentration of … main channel: information dissemination. Indeed, immigrants who live among naturalized co-ethnics are more likely to …
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European Refugee Crisis. We attribute the recent widening to decreased assimilation rates of new immigrants caused by a reduced … integration due to sudden increases in immigrants flows from culturally diverse parts of the world, particularly around the year … define as economic immigrants who intend to stay in Germany only temporarily, are very similar in their risk preferences to …
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insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and … the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … measurement challenges. While health is part of human capital, health assimilation is the mirror image of earnings assimilation …
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Previous research on internal mobility has neglected the role of local identity contrary to studies analyzing international migration. Examining social identity and labor market outcomes in China, the country with the largest internal mobility in the world, closes the gap. Instrumental variable...
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This paper studies the occupational selection among generations of immigrants in the United States and links their … time that immigrants spend in the US and over generations. Information friction may be an explanation. …
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meaningfulness. The study also finds evidence of emotional assimilation over time, with happiness disparities between immigrants and …This study investigates the emotional experiences of immigrants and native- born individuals in the United States …. The results reveal that when viewed through the evaluation lenses of the general US population, immigrants engage in less …
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We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate … immigrants from that country. By hiring immigrants, a firm may access foreign knowledge and networks needed to overcome …, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We …
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