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The labor market integration of migrants in Europe : new evidence from micro data

Ho, Giang; Turk Ariss, Rima - 2018

This paper presents novel empirical evidence on the labor market integration of migrants across Europe. It investigates … how successfully migrants integrate in 13 European countries by applying a unified framework to analyze a rich micro … impact of education acquired domestically and abroad in determining migrants' subsequent employment prospects. The analysis …

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Why U.S. immigration matters for the global advancement of science

Agarwal, Ruchir; Ganguli, Ina; Gaulé, Patrick; Smith, Geoff - 2021

. First, among Nobel Prize winners and Fields Medalists, migrants to the U.S. play a central role in the global knowledge …-histories of International Math Olympiad (IMO) medalists, we show that migrants to the U.S. are up to six times more productive … than migrants to other countries-even after accounting for talent during one's teenage years. Third, financing costs are a …

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Diversity in the Workplace

Vardy, Felix J. J. - 2006

We study a model where an employer, trying to fill a vacancy, engages in optimal sequential search by drawing from two subpopulations of candidates who differ in their ""discourse systems"": during an interview, a minority candidate with a discourse system not shared with the employer conveys a...

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Inequality overhang

Grigoli, Francesco; Robles, Adrian - 2017

The linearity of the relationship between income inequality and economic development has been long questioned. While theory provides arguments for which the shape of relationship may be positive for low levels of inequality and negative for high ones, most of the empirical literature assumes a...

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Women are key for future growth : evidence from Canada

Petersson, Bengt; Mariscal, Rodrigo; Ishi, Kotaro - 2017

How important are female workers for economic growth? This paper presents empirical evidence that an increase in female labor force participation is positively associated with labor productivity growth. Using panel data for 10 Canadian provinces over 1990-2015, we found that a 1 percentage point...

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China’s labor market in the “new normal”

Lam, W. Raphael; Liu, Xiaoguang; Schipke, Alfred - 2015

As China implements reforms under the "new normal," maintaining stability in the labor market is a priority. The country's demography and labor dynamics are changing, after benefitting in past decades from ample cheap labor. So far, the labor market appears to be resilient, even as growth slows,...

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Do Interest Groups Affect U.S. Immigration Policy?

Mishra, Prachi - 2008

While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration policy, there is no systematic empirical analysis of this issue. In this paper, we construct an industry-level dataset for the United States, by combining information on the number of temporary work...

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Ethnic Diversity, Democracy, and Corruption

Yehoue, Etienne B. - 2007

I study the link between ethnic diversity, democracy, and corruption. In a static model, I show that contrary to conventional wisdom, corruption might emerge as a negative externality of democracy. This occurs through ethnicity, which appears as a rent-extracting technology in a democratic...

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The Impact of Ethnic Heterogeneityon the Quantity and Quality of Public Spending

Kuijs, Louis - 2000

The paper investigates empirically the impact of ethnic heterogeneity on the amount of public spending on health and education and the quality, or “technical efficiency” of spending. While it finds partial evidence for the claim that more heterogeneous societies spend less on public goods,...

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Commodity Windfalls, Polarization, and Net Foreign Assets : Panel Data Evidenceon the Voracity Effect

Bruckner, Markus - 2010

This paper examines the effect that windfalls from international commodity price booms have on net foreign assets in a panel of 145 countries during the period 1970-2007. The main finding is that windfalls from international commodity price booms lead to a significant increase in net foreign...

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