Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 246
Cover Image
Immigration, integration, and the informal economy in OECD countries
Ben Atta, Oussama; Chort, Isabelle; Senne, Jean-Noël - 2022
This article assesses the impact of immigrant and asylum seeker in ows on the size of the informal sector in host countries from a macroeconomic perspective. We use two indicators of informality provided by Medina and Schneider (2019) and Elgin and Oztunali (2012) combined with migration data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013450696
Cover Image
Immigrant category of admission and the earnings of adults and children : how far does the apple fall?
Warman, Casey; Webb, Matthew; Worswick, Christopher - 2018
Adult Arrival parents and their Child Arrival children. We find, relative to the Family Class, the Adult Arrivals in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131428
Cover Image
Does parental absence harm children's education? : evidence from Vietnam
Cuong Viet Nguyen; Vu, Linh H. - 2022
, or divorce on children's school enrollment, for children aged from 7 to 22. We find children from two-parent families …-family types, the negative effect on children of parental divorce is higher than that of parental death, while the effect of … parental migration is the lowest. Comparing the effect of single-father and single-mother households, we find that children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012806266
Cover Image
How do new immigration flows affect existing immigrants? : evidence from the refugee crisis in Germany
Deole, Sumit S.; Huang, Yue - 2020
). Our identification allows us to emphasize the role of immigrants' culture in estimating immigration's socio …-economic impact. Additionally, we distinguish between the labor demand and labor supply effects associated with immigration, which … enables us to reflect on the ambiguous labor market impact of immigration suggested in the existing literature. In particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012238735
Cover Image
Divorce among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S.
Chiswick, Barry R.; Houseworth, Christina A. - 2019
This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data are for males and females age 18 to 55, who married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149386
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
Country of origin, earnings convergence, and human capital investment : a new method for the analysis of U.S. immigrant economic assimilation
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark C. - 2018
The initial earnings of U.S. immigrants vary enormously by country of origin. Via three interrelated analyses, we show earnings convergence across source countries with time in the United States. Human-capital theory plausibly explains the inverse relationship between initial earnings and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130585
Cover Image
I'm neither racist nor xenophobic, but: dissecting European attitudes towards a ban on Muslims' immigration
Marfouk, Abdeslam - 2018
paper also provides evidence that racism and immigration phobia play a key role in shaping Europeans' support of a ban on … Muslim immigration. This finding challenges the discourse and campaigns of the populist groups who exploit the 'Islamization … of Europe' rhetoric successfully and use various pretexts to justify a call for a ban on Muslims' immigration, e.g. the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130589
Cover Image
The effect of culture on home-ownership
Marcén, Miriam; Morale, Marina - 2018
In this paper, we analyze the role of culture in determining whether, or not, an individual is a homeowner. We use data on first-generation immigrants who arrived in the United States under 6 years old. Following the epidemiological approach, those early-arrival immigrants grew up under the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130605
Cover Image
The effect of 9/11 on immigrants' ethnic identity and employment : evidence from Germany
Delaporte, Isaure - 2019
identity choice of the migrants and thus, their employment outcomes. This study investigates the effect of the 9/11 terrorist …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012159277