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The Linguistic and Economic Adjustment of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in the United States, 1980 to 2000
Chiswick, Barry R.; Wenz, Michael - 2021
This paper is an analysis of the English-language proficiency and labor market earnings of adult male Soviet Jewish immigrants to the United States from 1965 to 2000, using the 2000 Census of Population. Comparisons are made to similar analyses using the 1980 and 1990 Censuses. A consistent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318316
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Beyond Conflict : Long-Term Labour Market Integration of Internally Displaced Persons in Post-Socialist Countries
Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2017
. Our conceptual framework draws on the theory of cumulative disadvantage and the notion of unemployment 'scarring'. Data … labour market outcomes and human capital accumulation. We also discuss how forced internal displacement extends the theory of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012940844
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Estimating Poverty for Refugee Populations : Can Cross-Survey Imputation Methods Substitute for Data Scarcity?
Dang, Hai-Anh - 2019
income, consumption, or expenditure. This paper offers a first attempt to measure poverty among refugees using cross …-survey imputations and administrative and survey data collected by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Jordan. Employing … a small number of predictors currently available in the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees registration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857830
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Tradable Refugee-Admission Quotas and EU Asylum Policy
Moraga, Jesús Fernández-Huertas - 2014
on both refugees and asylum-seekers coupled with a matching mechanism linking countries' and migrants' preferences. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013042965
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Measuring Immigration's Effects on Labor Demand : A Reexamination of the Mariel Boatlift
Bodvarsson, Orn B.; Lewer, Joshua J.; van den Berg, Hendrik - 2021
It is now well known that exogenous immigration shocks tend to have benign effects on native employment outcomes, thanks to various secondary adjustment processes made possible by flexible markets. One adjustment process that has received scant attention is that immigrants, as consumers of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316921
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Diasporas and Conflict
Mariani, Fabio - 2016
We build a model of conflict in which two groups contest a resource and must decide on the optimal allocation of labor between fighting and productive activities. In this setting, a diaspora emanating from one of the two groups can get actively involved in the conflict by transferring financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012981492
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Limbo or Leverage? Asylum Waiting and Refugee Integration
Aslund, Olof; Engdahl, Mattias; Rosenqvist, Olof - 2022
We study the impact of asylum waiting, exploiting a rapid increase in processing times for asylum seekers to Sweden. Longer waiting slows down integration. Accumulated earnings during the first four years after application are 2.3 percent lower per added month of waiting. The impact is due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083875
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Market Orientation and Gender Wage Gaps : An International Study
Zweimüller, Martina; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - 2021
Two very different approaches are used to explore the relation between market orientation and gender wage differentials in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in product and labor markets and the general absence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316922
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The Age of Mass Migration : Economic and Institutional Determinants
Bertocchi, Graziella; Strozzi, Chiara - 2021
We study the determinants of 19th century mass migration with special attention to the role of institutional factors beside standard economic fundamentals. We find that economic forces associated with income and demographic differentials had a major role in the determination of this historical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317290
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Russian Jewish Immigrants in the United States : The Adjustment of Their English Language Proficiency and Earnings in the American Community Survey
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2012
Compared to other immigrants to the United States, recent Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union have achieved high levels of English language proficiency and earnings. They experience disadvantages in both dimensions at arrival, but because of steeper improvements with duration in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099718