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This paper analyses incomes and socioeconomic status of internal migrants over time and in comparison to their new …. Using a novel dataset from the emerging economy of Kazakhstan we find that internal migrants earn an income and status …
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I develop a model of conspicuous consumption to empirically measure the importance of peer beliefs to Americans and Chinese. In the model, a consumer cares not only about the direct utility she receives from consumption, but also about the way her consumption pattern affects her peer group's...
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where migrants tend to cluster. In this paper we reconcile the existing evidence by taking another route. We analyze whether …
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explanatory variables. This approach is applied to German survey data. Our estimation results suggest that a reduction in tobacco …
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while others show that non-migrants bear a larger work burden to compensate for the loss of migrants' earnings. This paper … provides a new unified framework that generates testable predictions of whether migration increases non-migrants' welfare in … non-migrants' consumption, but that this consumption gain cannot be explained by labor supply adjustments. Migration …
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destinations developed by Grogger and Hanson (2011) by allowing for unobserved individual heterogeneity between migrants and non-migrants …
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Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact … that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes …
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Many children grow up with parents working abroad. Economists are interested in the achievement and well-being of these "home alone" children to better understand the positive and negative aspects of migration in the sending countries. This paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration...
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A large literature exploits geographic variation in the concentration of immigrants to identify their impact on a variety of outcomes. To address the endogeneity of immigrants' location choices, the most commonly-used instrument interacts national inflows by country of origin with immigrants'...
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This paper develops and estimates a joint hazard-longitudinal (JHL) model of the timing of migration and labor market assimilation – two processes that have been assumed to be independent in the existing literature. The JHL model accounts for the endogenous age of entry in estimating the...
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