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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence
Constant, Amelie - 2017
The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119651
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Labour force participation and employment of humanitarian migrants : evidence from the building a new life in Australia longitudinal data
Cheng, Zhiming; Wang, Ben Zhe; Taksa, Lucy - 2017
between human capital and labour market participation and employment status among recently arrived/approved humanitarian … migrants. It includes attention to the heterogeneity of labour force participation and employment status across genders and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119201
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A broken social elevator? : employment outcomes of first- and second-generation immigrants in Belgium
Piton, Céline; Rycx, François - 2020
This paper provides a comprehensive quantitative assessment of the employment performance of first- and second … first-generation immigrants face a substantial employment penalty (up to -36% points) vis-à-vis their native counterparts …. Among the key drivers of access to employment, we find: i) education for the descendants of non-EU-born immigrants, and ii …
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Trade networks, heroin markets, and the labor market outcomes of Vietnam veterans
Lonsky, Jakub; Ruiz, Isabel; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - 2021
The role of ethnic immigrant networks in facilitating international trade is a well-established phenomenon in the literature. However, it is less clear whether this relationship extends to illegal trade and unauthorized immigrants. In this paper, we tackle this question by focusing on the case...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012659497
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Self-selection in physical and mental health among older intra-European migrants
Constant, Amelie; Milewski, Nadja - 2020
The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the host country, may suffer from serious cultural biases. Our study evades such biases by utilizing a destination-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265276
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Birth in hard times when you belong to minorities
Bertoli, Paola; Grembi, Veronica; Nguyen, The Linh Bao - 2020
Combining a unique dataset of birth records with municipal-level real estate information, we assess the impact of the 2008 recession on the health of immigrant newborns in Italy. Health at birth (e.g., low birth weight) of immigrants deteriorated more than health at birth of Italians. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389435
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The evolution of labor market disparities between Hispanic and non-Hispanic men : 1970-2019
Kospentaris, Ioannis; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2023
evolved over the last 50 years. Using data from the March CPS, the Census, and the ACS, we examine several employment and … earning outcomes. Hispanics have experienced sizable gains to employment: from a negative 2% prior to 1990 to a positive 4 … 30% with some improvement after 2000. Most of the employment gain is driven by those with less than a high school degree …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013479664
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The evolution of labor market disparities between Hispanic and non-Hispanic men : 1970-2019
Kospentaris, Ioannis; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2023
evolved over the last 50 years. Using data from the March CPS, the Census, and the ACS, we examine several employment and … earning outcomes. Hispanics have experienced sizable gains to employment: from a negative 2% prior to 1990 to a positive 4 … 30% with some improvement after 2000. Most of the employment gain is driven by those with less than a high school degree …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287104
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On immigration and native entrepreneurship
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; McHenry, Peter - 2021
We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneur-ship by being willing and able to invest in new skills. Immigrants whose human capitalis not immediately transferable to the host country face lower opportunity costs ofinvesting in new skills or methods and will be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012516448
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Wage effects of educational mismatch according toworkers' origin : the role of demographics and firm characteristics
Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2021
This paper analyses the wage effects of educational mismatch by workers' origin using a sizeable, detailed matched employer-employee dataset for Belgium. Relying on a fine-grained approach to measuring educational mismatch, the results show that over-educated workers, regardless of their origin,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012652813