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Aggregate-Level Migration Studies as a Tool for Forecasting Future Migration Streams

Schmidt, Christoph M.; Fertig, Michael - 2021

Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well … understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc … application to the case of EU-enlargement and the ensuing migration streams to be expected from Eastern Europe …

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Economic Preferences and Attitudes of the Unemployed : Are Natives and Second Generation Migrants Alike?

Constant, Amelie F. - 2010

In this paper we study the economic effects of risk attitudes, time preferences, trust and reciprocity while we compare natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between the two groups mainly in terms of risk attitudes...

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Immigrant Heterogeneity and the Earnings Distribution in the United Kingdom and United States : New Evidence from a Panel Data Quantile Regression Analysis

Billger, Sherrilyn M. - 2010

In this paper we use a relatively new panel data quantile regression technique to examine native-immigrant earnings differentials 1) throughout the conditional wage distribution, and 2) controlling for individual heterogeneity. No previous papers have simultaneously considered these factors. We...

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The Importance of Heterogeneity When Examining Immigrant Education-Occupation Mismatch : Evidence from New Zealand

Poot, Jacques - 2010

Many immigrants are overqualified in their first job after arrival in the host country. Education-occupation mismatch can affect the economic integration of immigrants and the returns to education and experience. The extent of this problem has been measured in recent years by means of micro...

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Remittances, Migrants' Education and Immigration Policy : Theory and Evidence from Bilateral Data

Docquier, Frédéric - 2011

-selective. These predictions are then tested empirically using bilateral remittance and migration data and proxy measures for the …

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Testing the 'Residential Rootedness'-Hypothesis of Self-Employment for Germany and the UK

Reuschke, Darja - 2011

exit from self-employment are associated with internal migration …

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Culture, Intermarriage, and Differentials in Second-Generation Immigrant Women's Labor Supply

Gevrek, Z. Eylem - 2011

We examine the impact of culture on the work behavior of second-generation immigrant women in Canada. We contribute to the current literature by analyzing the role of intermarriage in intergenerational transmission of culture and its subsequent effect on labor market outcomes. Using relative...

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The Economic Integration of Forced Migrants : Evidence for Post-War Germany

Bauer, Thomas K. - 2011

The flight and expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe during and after World War II constitutes one of the largest forced population movements in history. We analyze the economic integration of these forced migrants and their offspring in West Germany. The empirical results suggest that even a...

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Social Contacts and the Economic Performance of Immigrants : A Panel Study of Immigrants in Germany

Kanas, Agnieszka - 2011

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examined the impact of social contacts on immigrant occupational status and income. In addition to general social contacts, we also analyzed the effects of bonding (i.e., co-ethnic) and bridging (i.e., interethnic) ties on economic outcomes....

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Immigration, Growth and Unemployment : Panel VAR Evidence from OECD Countries

Boubtane, Ekrame - 2012

results provide evidence of migration contribution to host economic prosperity (positive impact on GDP per capita and negative … impact on aggregate unemployment, native- and foreign-born unemployment rates). We also find that migration is influenced by … host economic conditions (migration responds positively to host GDP per capita and negatively to host total unemployment …

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