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Labour Market Status and Migration Dynamics
Bijwaard, Govert E. - 2009
Netherlands, which implies that all migrants are (self)-employed at the time of arrival. We find that many migrants leave the … the dynamics. Microsimulations of synthetic cohorts reveal that many migrants experience unemployment spells, but ten … only increase the unemployment among migrants but also departure from the country. Scenarios also indicate that an increase …
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Free vs. Restricted Immigration : Bilateral Country Study
Razin, Assaf - 2011
This paper tests the differential effects of the generosity of the welfare state under free migration and under policy-controlled migration, distinguishing between source developing and developed countries. We utilize free-movement within the EU to examine the free migration regime and compare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128835
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Selective Immigration Policies, Migrants' Education and Welfare at Origin
Bertoli, Simone - 2010
migrants' average education even if one allows for endogenous schooling decisions and education policies at origin. Still, more …
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Natural Experiment Evidence on the Effect of Migration on Blood Pressure and Hypertension
Gibson, John - 2010
Over 200 million people live outside their country of birth and experience large gains in material well-being by moving to where wages are higher. But the effect of this migration on health is less clear and existing evidence is ambiguous because of the potential for self-selection bias. In this...
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Migration and Culture
Epstein, Gil S. - 2010
how culture manifests itself in the migration process for three groups of actors: the migrants, those remaining in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139048
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Does Culture Affect Divorce Decisions? Evidence from European Immigrants in the US
Furtado, Delia - 2011
This paper explores the role of culture in determining divorce decisions by examining country of origin differences in divorce rates of immigrants in the United States. Because childhood-arriving immigrants are all exposed to a common set of US laws and institutions, we interpret relationships...
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Xenophobic Attacks, Migration Intentions and Networks : Evidence from the South of Africa
Friebel, Guido - 2011
We investigate how emigration flows from a developing region are affected by xenophobic violence at destination. Our empirical analysis is based on a unique survey among more than 1000 households, collected in Mozambique in summer 2008, a few months after a series of xenophobic attacks in South...
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The Evils of Forced Migration : Do Integration Policies Alleviate Migrants' Economic Situations?
Falck, Oliver - 2011
Armed conflicts, natural disasters and infrastructure projects continue to force millions into migration. This is especially true for developing countries. After World War II, about 8 million ethnic Germans experienced a similar situation when forced to leave their homelands and settle within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122685
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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
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Split Decisions : Family Finance When a Policy Discontinuity Allocates Overseas Work
Clemens, Michael A. - 2012
Labor markets are increasingly global. Overseas work can enrich households but also split them geographically, with ambiguous net effects on decisions about work, investment, and education. These net effects, and their mechanisms, are poorly understood. We study a policy discontinuity in the...
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