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How immigration may affect US native entrepreneurship: Theoretical building blocks and preliminary results
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; Regets, Mark - 2012
perspectives that focus on low-cost immigrant labor or immigrant entrepreneurship. … impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are easier to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283971
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The Labor Market Costs of Conflict: Closures, Foreign Workers, and Palestinian Employment and Earnings
Miaari, Sami H.; Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
In this paper, we measure the implications of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for Palestinian employment and earnings. We quantify the conflict by the frequency of temporary closures of the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the number of overseas foreign workers in the Israeli labor market. Data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822079
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A Macroeconomic Experiment in Mass Immigration
Hercowitz, Zvi; Yashiv, Eran - 2002
This paper studies the effects of mass immigration from the former USSR to Israel in the 1990s on the employment of the native-born. The exogeneity and the size of this inflow make it a ?natural experiment? of macroeconomic proportions. An open-economy macroeconomic model is used to analyze this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262777
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The Dynamic Impact of Immigration on Natives' Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from Israel
Cohen-Goldner, Sarit; Paserman, Marco Daniele - 2004
This paper studies the dynamic impact of mass migration from the Former Soviet Union to Israel on natives? labor market outcomes. Specifically, we attempt to distinguish between the short-run and long-run effects of immigrants on natives? wages and employment. The transition of immigrants into a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276184
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Mass Migration to Israel and Natives? Transitions from Employment
Cohen-Goldner, Sarit; Paserman, Marco Daniele - 2004
This paper studies the impact of mass migration from the Former Soviet Union to Israel on natives? probability of moving from employment to non-employment in a segmented labor market that is defined by various combinations of schooling, occupation, industry, district of residence and experience....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276185
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Immigration and structural change: Evidence from post-war Germany
Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2012
Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II as a natural experiment to study this question. A simple two-sector model of the economy, in which moving...
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The importance of heterogeneity when examining immigrant education-occupation mismatch: Evidence from New Zealand
Poot, Jacques; Stillman, Steven - 2010
Many immigrants are overqualified in their first job after arrival in the host country. Education-occupation mismatch can affect the economic integration of immigrants and the returns to education and experience. The extent of this problem has been measured in recent years by means of micro...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274604
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The human capital (schooling) of immigrants in America
Smith, James P. - 2012
diversity in the schooling accomplishments among different immigrant sub-groups and between legal and undocumented migrants. I …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290024
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The Elusive Concept of Immigrant Quality: Evidence from 1970-1990
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2002
a good measure of the stock of immigrant human capital. This article presents a model of immigrant human capital … initial immigrant earnings and subsequent earnings growth. This result – which persists even after accounting for differences … are not controlled for. The immigrant human capital investment model presented here explores general principles that may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262373
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Immigration: The European experience
Dustmann, Christian; Frattini, Tommaso - 2011
This paper first presents a brief historical overview of immigration in Europe. We then provide (and distinguishing between EU and non-EU immigrants) a comprehensive analysis of the skill structures of immigrants and their labor market integration in the different European countries, their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282536