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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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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 …
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Ethnic identity and the employment outcomes of immigrants : evidence from France
Delaporte, Isaure - 2019
. The results show that having multiple identities improves the employment outcomes of the migrants and contribute to help … design effective post-immigration policies. …
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The financial decisions of immigrant and native households : evidence from Italy
Bertocchi, Graziella; Brunetti, Marianna; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2018
Using rich Italian data for the period 2006-2014, we document sizeable gaps between native and immigrant households with respect to wealth holdings and financial decisions. Immigrant household heads hold less net wealth than native, but only above the median of the wealth distribution, with...
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Self-employment differentials among foreign-born STEM and non-STEM workers
Cai, Zhengyu; Winters, John V. - 2017
This paper uses the American Community Survey to examine the previously overlooked fact that foreign STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) graduates have much lower self-employment rates than their non-STEM counterparts, with an unconditional difference of 3.3 percentage...
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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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Fiscal position of immigrants in Europe : a quantile regression approach
Joxhe, Majlinda; Scaramozzino, Pasquale; Zanaj, Skerdilajda - 2021
non-European migrants have a different fiscal position from natives only on the extreme tails of the NFP distribution. Non …-EU migrants contribute more than natives in the top quantile of the NFP, whereas they are more fiscally depend in the bottom … quantile. We also examine the relationship between our calculated migrants' fiscal position and the fiscal perception of …
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Trick or treat? : the Brexit effect on immigrants' wellbeing in the UK
Rienzo, Cinzia - 2020
treatment groups. The current analysis suggests that following the EU Referendum Results Non-EU migrants experienced an …
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Racial diversity, immigrants and the well-being of residents : evidence from U.S. counties
Kuroki, Masanori - 2017
This paper presents empirical evidence that racial diversity and immigrant population at the local level tend to be associated with lower life satisfaction for Whites by matching individual data with the county-level population data during the period 2005-2010. The magnitudes I find suggest that...
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From engineer to taxi driver? : language proficiency and the occupational skills of immigrants
Imai, Susumu; Stacey, Derek; Warman, Casey - 2018
We examine the ability of immigrants to transfer the occupational human capital they acquired prior to immigration. We … less intently on manual skills. Following immigration, they find initial employment in occupations that require the …
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