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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...
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Ethnic attrition, assimilation, and the measured health outcomes of Mexican Americans
Antman, Francisca M.; Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2020
The literature on immigrant assimilation and intergenerational progress has sometimes reached surprising conclusions, such as the puzzle of immigrant advantage which finds that Hispanic immigrants sometimes have better health than U.S.-born Hispanics. While numerous studies have attempted to...
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The case for NIT+FT in Europe : an empirical optimal taxation exercise
Islam, Nizamul; Colombino, Ugo - 2017
The case for NIT+FT in Europe. An empirical optimal tWe present an exercise in empirical optimal taxation for European countries from three areas: Southern, Central and Northern Europe. For each country, we estimate a microeconometric model of labour supply for both couples and singles. A...
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Technology, risk and social policy : an empirical investigation
Guarascio, Dario; Sacchi, Stefano - 2021
This paper investigates the role of exposure to technological risk in shaping social policy preferences, specifically on support for universal basic income and means-tested generalised minimum income. Evidence is provided for Italy, to exploit the availability of high-quality data, allowing...
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Is immigration good for Europe? : long-run evidence using comprehensive well-being
O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2024
The immigrant (foreign-born) population increased by 32 million in total across 37 European countries from 1990 to 2019. Much of this movement was from east to west. Indeed, both the total and foreign-born populations declined in the former Eastern Bloc over this period. Such demographic shifts...
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Beyond the stigma of war : Russian migrants in Kazakhstan's labour market
Abdulla, Kanat; Mourelatos, Evangelos - 2024
In this study, we investigate the employers' attitude towards Russian migrants in Kazakhstan's labor market. We conduct … occupations. Specifically, Russian migrants were significantly less likely to receive an interview invitation. Interestingly …
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The occupations of free women and substitution with enslaved workers in the antebellum United States
Chiswick, Barry R.; Robinson, RaeAnn H. - 2022
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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Immigrant employment and the contract enforcement costs of offshoring
Hatzigeorgiou, Andreas; Karpaty, Patrik; Kneller, Richard; … - 2022 - This draft: February 2022
Offshoring continues to be an important dimension of firms' internationalization choices. However, offshoring also increases contract enforcement costs by inhibiting the coordination and monitoring of performance. Immigrant employees may reduce such costs through their specific knowledge of the...
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Occupational regulation, institutions, and migrants' labor market outcomes
Koumenta, Maria; Pagliero, Mario; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2022
We study how licensing, certification and unionisation affect the wages of natives and migrants and their … certified migrants (10.2 and 6.6 log points), reflecting a more intense screening of migrant than native workers. The … representation of migrants among licensed (but not certified or unionized) workers is 14% lower than that of natives. This implies a …
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The supply of foreign talent : how skill-biased technology drives the location choice and skills of new immigrants
Beerli, Andreas; Indergand, Ronald; Kunz, Johannes - 2021
An important goal of immigration policy is to facilitate the entry of foreignborn workers whose skills are in short supply in national labor markets. In recent decades, information and communication technology [ICT] has fueled the demand for highly educated workers at the expense of lower...
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