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Reservation Wages of First and Second Generation Migrants
Constant, Amelie F. - 2010
This paper analyzes the reservation wages of first and second generation migrants. Based on recently collected and rich … reservation wages increase from first to second generation migrants. Two extensions of the basic job search model, namely an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134810
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Immigrant Over- and Under-Education : The Role of Home Country Labour Market Experience
Piracha, Matloob - 2010
The cause of immigrant education mismatch in the host country labour market might not necessarily be discrimination or imperfect transferability of human capital, as argued in previous studies. Immigrants who have gained professional experience in the home country in jobs below their education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136034
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Immigrant Networks and U.S. Bilateral Trade : The Role of Immigrant Income
Mundra, Kusum - 2010
This paper examines the role of immigrant networks on trade, particularly through the demand effect. First, we examine the effect of immigration on trade when the immigrants consume more of the goods that are abundant in their home country than the natives in a standard Heckscher-Ohlin model and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136947
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Foreign Labour Migration and the Economic Crisis in the EU : Ongoing and Remaining Issues of the Migrant Workforce in Germany
Kim, Anna Myunghee - 2010
migrants in most of the major receiving states of the EU, the status of the predominantly low-skilled sector-employed migrant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139038
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Occupational Adjustment of Immigrants
Zorlu, Aslan - 2011
This paper examines the speed of the occupational adjustment of immigrants using Labour Force Surveys 2004 and 2005 from Statistics Netherlands. The analysis provides new evidence that immigrants start with jobs at the lower levels of skill distribution. Their occupational achievement improves...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117839
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Remittances, Migrants' Education and Immigration Policy : Theory and Evidence from Bilateral Data
Docquier, Frédéric - 2011
We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118275
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Low-Skilled Immigrants and the U.S. Labor Market
Duncan, Brian - 2011
Over the last several decades, two of the most significant developments in the U.S. labor market have been: (1) rising inequality, and (2) growth in both the size and the diversity of immigration flows. Because a large share of new immigrants arrive with very low levels of schooling, English...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120406
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Migrant Women on the Labour Market : On the Role of Home-and Host-Country Participation
Kok, Suzanne - 2011
The behaviour of migrant women on the labour market is influenced by a variety of factors, among which the culture of the home and host country. Part of the literature investigates the role of home-country culture. This study extends the literature by including a measure for the influence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122965
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123591
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Immigration and Trade Creation for the U.S : The Role of Immigrant Occupation
Mundra, Kusum - 2012
This paper highlights that the immigrants' effect on trade is not identical across all types of immigrants but it varies with the immigrants' occupation. Using a sample of 63 U.S. trading partners which are also big immigrant sending countries over the years 1991-2000, this paper finds that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096149