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Perception of Workplace Discrimination Among Immigrants and Native Born New Zealanders

Daldy, Bridget - 2013

Despite considerable research on differences in labour market outcomes between native born New Zealanders and immigrants, the extent of discrimination experienced by the foreign born in the workplace remains relatively unexplored. We use micro data from the Confidentialised Unit Record File of...

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The Impacts of International Migration on Remaining Household Members : Omnibus Results from a Migration Lottery Program

Gibson, John - 2009

these selectivity issues using the randomization provided by an immigration ballot under the Pacific Access Category (PAC …) of New Zealand's immigration policy. We survey applicants to the 2002-05 PAC ballots in Tonga and compare outcomes for … ballots. The immigration laws determine which household members can accompany the principal migrant, providing an instrument …

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The Prostitute's Allure : Examining Returns to Beauty, Productivity and Discrimination

Arunachalam, Raj - 2010

We estimate the earnings premium for beauty in an occupation where returns to physical attractiveness are likely to be important: commercial sex work. In the commercial sex market, perhaps more so than any other sector in the labor market, the beauty premium should be at the extreme due to the...

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A Critique and Reframing of Personality in Labour Market Theory : Locus of Control and Labour Market Outcomes

Trzcinski, Eileen - 2011

This article critically examines the theoretical arguments that underlie the literature linking personality traits to economic outcomes and provides empirical evidence indicating that labour market outcomes influence personality outcomes. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we...

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The Effect of a Health and Economic Shock on the Gender, Ethnic and Racial Gap in Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from Covid-19

Milovanska-Farrington, Stefani - 2023

With more than 29 million confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the U.S. and 119 million cases worldwide, the pandemic has affected companies, households and the global economy. We explore the effect of this health and economic shock on labor market outcomes, and the changes in labor market disparities...

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The Labor Demand Was Downward Sloping : Disentangling Migrants' Inflows and Outflows, 1929-1957

Biavaschi, Costanza - 2012

This paper studies in- and out-migration from the U.S. during the first half of the twentieth century and assesses how these flows affected state-level labor markets. It shows that out-migration positively impacted the wages of remaining workers, while in-migration had a negative impact. Hence,...

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Social Capital and Immigrants' Labour Market Performance

Piracha, Matloob - 2013

This paper analyses the role of social capital on immigrants' labour market outcomes. We use the "principal component analysis" (PCA) to build an index of social networks and explore its impact on the probability of getting a job and on wage levels using the Households Income and Labour Dynamics...

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Migration, Risk Attitudes, and Entrepreneurship : Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey

Batista, Catia - 2013

selective immigration policies in countries of destination. In order to provide a rigorous answer to it, we use a novel vignette …

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Labour Market Progression of Canadian Immigrant Women

Adserà, Alícia - 2014

We use the confidential files of the 1991-2006 Canadian Census, combined with information from O*NET on the skill requirements of jobs, to explore whether Canadian immigrant women behave as secondary workers, remaining marginally attached to the labour market and experiencing little career...

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Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance? Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey

Batista, Catia - 2014

Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the literature, the question of identifying this relationship empirically has only begun to be explored. Using a unique representative survey of 1500 immigrants in the Greater Dublin...

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