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Mahuteau, Stéphane; Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; … - 2011

This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants' probability of becoming entrepreneurs. The policy change consists of stricter entry requirements and restrictions to welfare entitlements. The results indicate that those who...

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Selection policy and immigrants' remittance behaviour

Mahuteau, Stéphane; Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano - 2010

This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants' remittance behaviour. More precisely, we compare the remittance behaviour of two cohorts who entered Australia before and after the policy change, which consists of stricter...

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Do immigrants displace native workers? Evidence from matched panel data

Martins, Pedro S.; Piracha, Matloob; Varejão, José - 2012

Using matched employer-employee data, we analyse the impact of immigrants on natives' employment in Portugal. Using different model specifications, we show that the natives and immigrants are 'complements' at most occupation levels, in the sense that they are jointly hired and fired. Controlling...

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Migrant educational mismatch and the labour market

Piracha, Matloob; Vadean, Florin - 2012

This paper reviews the literature on educational mismatch of immigrants in the labour market of destination countries. It draws on the theoretical arguments postulated in the labour economics literature and discusses their extension in the analysis of the causes and effects of immigrants'...

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Immigration Policy and Entrepreneurship

Mahuteau, Stéphane; Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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Return migration and occupational choice

Piracha, Matloob; Vadean, Florin P. - 2009

return migrants while explicitly differentiating between self-employment as either own account work or entrepreneurship … characteristics closer to non-participants in the labour market (i.e. lower education levels), while entrepreneurship is positively …, after a one year re-integration period, the effect on non participation vanishes and that on entrepreneurship becomes …

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Ethnic Identity and Immigrants' Labour Market Outcomes

Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Cheng, Zhiming; … - 2021

The objective of this paper is to analyse how immigrants' ethnic identity correlates with their labour market outcomes. More precisely, we estimate the role of ethnic identity in employment, wages, under-employment (i.e., they would prefer to work more hours but are not given the opportunity),...

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Social capital and immigrants' labour market performance

Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Vaira Lucero, Matias - 2013

This paper analyses the role of social capital on immigrants' labour market outcomes. We use the principal component analysis (PCA) to build an index of social networks and explore its impact on the probability of getting a job and on wage levels using the Households Income and Labour Dynamics...

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Social Networks and the Labour Market Mismatch

Kalfa, Eleni; Piracha, Matloob - 2015

This paper assesses the extent to which social contacts and ethnic concentration affect the education-occupation mismatch of natives and immigrants. Using Australian panel data and employing a dynamic random effects probit model, we show that social capital exacerbates the incidence of...

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Immigrants' Educational Mismatch and the Penalty of Over-Education

Kalfa, Eleni; Piracha, Matloob - 2013

cross-sectional data from the National Immigrant Survey of Spain 2007, we estimate a probit model taking into account the …

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