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Gender differences in native preferences towards undocumented and legal immigration: evidence from San Diego

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Puttitanun, Thitima - 2009

The literature has noted that native views about legal as opposed to undocumented immigration in the U.S. differ. Furthermore, native views about immigration are known to vary by gender. Yet, most surveys do not inquire native men and women about their views with regards to the two distinct...

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Complements or substitutes? Task specialization by gender and nativity in Spain

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; de la Rica, Sara - 2009

Learning about the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives is a topic of major concern for immigrant-receiving countries. There exists an extensive literature evaluating the impact of immigration on the employment and wages of natives in the U.S. Yet, despite the...

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Are There Gender and Country of Origin Differences in Immigrant Labor Market Outcomes across European Destinations?

Adsera, Alicia; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2004

The paper uses the 1994-2000 waves of the European Community Household Panel to conduct a systematic analysis of the earnings of immigrants as compared to native workers, in particular to test whether there is any systematic variation in the labor market performance of immigrants across gender...

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Circular migration or permanent return: what determines different forms of migration?

Vadean, Florin P.; Piracha, Matloob - 2009

What determines each of these distinctive temporary migration forms? Using Albanian household survey data and both a … education, gender, age, geographical location and the return reasons from the first migration trip significantly affect the … choice of migration form. Compared to return migrants, circular migrants are more likely to be male, have primary education …

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An explanation for the lower payoff to schooling for immigrants in the Canadian labour market

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

This paper examines the difference between the payoffs to schooling for immigrants and the native born in Canada, using 2001 Census data. Analyses are presented for males and females. Comparisons are offered with findings for the US. The paper uses the Overeducation/Required...

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A gendered assessment of the brain drain

Docquier, Frédéric; Lowell, B. Lindsay; Marfouk, Abdeslam - 2007

This paper updates and extends the Docquier-Marfouk data set on international migration by educational attainment. We … drain. Emigration stocks and rates are provided by level of schooling and gender for 195 source countries in 1990 and 2000 … higher rates of brain drain than men. The gender gap in skilled migration is strongly correlated with the gender gap in …

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Remittances and gender: Theoretical considerations and empirical evidence

Holst, Elke; Schäfer, Andrea; Schrooten, Mechthild - 2011

In this paper, we focus on network- and gender-specific determinants of remittances, which are often explained theoretically by way of intra-family contracts. We develop a basic formal concept that includes aspects of the transnational network and derive hypotheses from it. For our empirical...

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Are Asian Migrants Discriminated Against in the Labour Market? : A Case Study of Australia

Paul, Satya; Junankar, P. N. (Raja); Yasmeen, Wahida - 2004

This paper explores the issue of discrimination against Asian migrants in the Australian labour market using a unique panel data set, the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia (LSIA). This paper estimates models of the probability of being unemployed for Asian and non-Asian migrants...

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Gender, Comparative Advantage and Labor Market Activity in Immigrant Families

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Crossley, Thomas F. - 2001

financing post-migration human capital investment in which the partner with labor market comparative advantage engages in …

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The Theory of Differential Overqualification: Does it Work?

Büchel, Felix; Battu, Harminder - 2002

The theory of differential overqualification, developed by Robert Frank (1978), claims that married women in smaller labor markets have a higher risk of working in jobs for which they are overqualified. This stems from the problem of dual job search for couples which is much more difficult to...

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