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The Role of Labor Market Institutions in the Impact of Immigration on Wages and Employment
Foged, Mette; Hasager, Linea; Yasenov, Vasil I. - 2021
We study the role of institutions in affecting the labor market impacts of immigration using a cross-country meta … immigration from 61 academic studies covering 18 developed countries. The mean and median impact on the relative wage of directly … from distributional (relative) wage consequences of immigration but exacerbate the impacts on average wages in the economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013243097
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Good and Bad Institutions : Is the Debate Over? Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence from the Textile Industry
Bhaumik, Sumon K. - 2011
Using firm-level data from nine developing countries we demonstrate that (a) certain institutions like restrictive labour market regulations that are considered to be bad for economic growth might be beneficial for production efficiency, whereas (b) good business environment which is considered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130456
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Homo Moralis : Personal Characteristics, Institutions, and Moral Decision-Making
Deckers, Thomas - 2016
This paper studies how individual characteristics, institutions, and their interaction influence moral decisions. We validate a moral paradigm focusing on the willingness to accept harming third parties. Consequences of moral decisions are real. We explore how moral behavior varies with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997434
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Selective Immigration Policies, Migrants' Education and Welfare at Origin
Bertoli, Simone - 2010
Destination countries are progressively shifting towards selective immigration policies. These can effectively increase … migrants' average education even if one allows for endogenous schooling decisions and education policies at origin. Still, more … selective immigration policies reduce social welfare at origin …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134809
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120410
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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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Miserable Migrants? Natural Experiment Evidence on International Migration and Objective and Subjective Well-Being
Stillman, Steven - 2012
some studies suggesting that migrants are miserable in their new locations. Observational studies are potentially biased by … the self-selection of migrants so a natural experiment is used to compare successful and unsuccessful applicants to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099692
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On the Pro-Trade Effects of Immigrants
Bratti, Massimiliano - 2012
In this paper we investigate the causal effect of immigration on trade flows, using Italian panel data covering very … provinces coupled with the absence of cultural (e.g. language) or historical (colonial ties) attractors for immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104938
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Immigration and Innovation
Maré, David C. - 2013
We combine firm-level innovation data with area-level Census data to examine the relationship between local workforce characteristics, especially the presence of immigrants and local skills, and the likelihood of innovation by firms. We examine a range of innovation outcomes, and test the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013093480
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154986