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The transmission of women's fertility, human capital and work orientation across immigrant generations

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Liu, Albert Yung-Hsu - 2008

Using 1995 - 2006 Current Population Survey and 1970 - 2000 Census data, we study the intergenerational transmission of fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women's fertility and labor supply are significantly...

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Labour market status and migration dynamics

Bijwaard, Govert E. - 2009

country after a period of no-income. Employment characteristics and the country of origin play an important role in explaining …

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The effects of naturalization on immigrants' employment probability (France, 1968 - 1999)

Fougère, Denis; Safi, Mirna - 2008

on the employment probability at the second date. In our study, the probability of naturalization between two census … effect of naturalization on the individual employment probability by estimating a univariate probit model. To control for the … immigrants who have a low probability of employment in the host country. …

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New labour? The impact of migration from Central and Eastern European countries on the UK labour market

Lemos, Sara; Portes, Jonathan - 2008

The UK was one of only three countries that granted free movement of workers to accession nationals following the enlargement of the European Union in May 2004. The resulting large, rapid and concentrated migration inflow can be seen as a natural experiment that arguably corresponds closely to...

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EU enlargement under continued mobility restrictions: consequences for the German labor market

Brenke, Karl; Yuksel, Mutlu; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

The numbers of migrants from the accessions countries have clearly increased since the enlargement of the EU in 2004. Following enlargement, the net inflow of EU8 immigrants has become 2.5 times larger than the four-year period before enlargement. Poles constitute the largest immigrant group...

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Labor Market Assimilation and the Self- Employment Decision of Immigrant Entrepreneurs

Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999

sorting into the sectors, models of the self-employment decision are estimated. Variables for the proportion of immigrants in … the population and average earnings ratios are used as instruments to control for self-selection into self-employment and …

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Immigration Policy and the Skills of Immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States

Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2001

Census data for 1990/91 indicate that Australian and Canadian immigrants have higher levels of English fluency, education, and income (relative to natives) than do U.S. immigrants. This skill deficit for U.S. immigrants arises primarily because the United States receives a much larger share of...

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Student flows and migration: an empirical analysis

Dreher, Axel; Poutvaara, Panu - 2005

Using panel data for 78 countries of origin we examine the impact of student flows to the United States on subsequent migration there over the period 1971-2001. What we find is that the stock of foreign students is an important predictor of subsequent migration. This holds true whether or not...

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Immigration and housing rents in American cities

Saiz, Albert - 2006

Is there a local economic impact of immigration? Immigration pushes up rents and housing values in US destination cities. The positive association of rent growth and immigrant inflows is pervasive in time series for all metropolitan areas. I use instrumental variables based on a shift-share of...

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Individual attitudes towards immigrants: welfare-state determinants across countries

Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria - 2006

This paper analyzes welfare-state determinants of individual attitudes towards immigrants - within and across countries - and their interaction with labor-market drivers of preferences. We consider two different mechanisms through which a redistributive welfare system might adjust as a result of...

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