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This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study labor market assimilation of self-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage/salary workers are estimated. To control for endogenous sorting into the sectors, models of the self-employment...
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Using census data for 1996, 2001 and 2007 we study the labor market effect of immigration to South Africa. The paper …, we estimate that increased immigration has a negative and significant effect on natives' employment rates - and that this … robust to using an instrumental variable estimation strategy. At the national level, we find that increased immigration has a …
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data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased in Sweden in the 1990?s …
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This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to analyze the labor market experience of high-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high-skilled occupations than natives, but the gap between the two...
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experienced increased wages as a result of receiving amnesty through the 1986 Immigration and Reform Control Act during the 1990s …
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This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...
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Migration networks are usually captured by the number of people from the migrant?s country in the host region. Using …-village-specific variables on migrants? location choice. …
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on the migrant?s decision of where to migrate. Moreover, the significance and size of the effects vary according to the …
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opportunities as a way to deter further illegal immigration and as such is likely to increase poverty among an already marginalized …
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, dass eine auf die Arbeitsmarkt- und Integrationsfähigkeit von Migranten ausgerichtete selektive Zuwanderungspolitik, wie …
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