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the returns to self-employment among low-skilled immigrants. We compare annual earnings and earnings growth of immigrant … financially rewarding option for most low-skilled immigrants. An exception is immigrant men, who are found to have higher earnings … business. We also find that most of the 20 percent male native-immigrant earnings gap among low-skilled business owners can be …
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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...
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This paper tracks the economic status of American Jewry over the past three centuries. It relies on qualitative material in the early period and quantitative data since 1890. The primary focus is on the occupational status of Jewish men and women, compared to non-Jews, with additional analyses...
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quality on the immigrant selection process, rather than the quality of immigrants' schooling per se, that is the major driver …
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Many empirical studies on the determinants of international migration flows rely exclusively on macro data, and do not account for migrants' self-selection. We analyze a very interesting episode in international migration for which we are able to gather individual-level data covering all...
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This paper explores the theoretical issues and the empirical literature regarding the selectivity of migrants. Although the primary focus is on international migration, reference is made to internal migration and return migration. The theoretical analysis indicates a tendency toward the...
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their economic status with duration in the destination. This pattern has been found for all the immigrant receiving … also presented to test whether the findings are sensitive to immigrant cohort quality effects. Even after controlling for …
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This paper examines the incidence of the mismatch of the educational attainment and the occupation of employment, and the impact of this mismatch on the earnings, of high-skilled adult male immigrants in the US labor market. Analyses for high-skilled adult male native-born workers are also...
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This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation …
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Matches or Worker Self-Assessment methods. The analyses are conducted for all male native-born and immigrant workers in the US …
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