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Ethnic Regional Networks and Immigrants' Earnings: A Spatial Autoregressive Network Approach
Wang, Xingang; Maani, Sholeh A. - 2021
The conventional model of immigrant earnings does not account for the correlation of outcomes across immigrant ethnic networks. We apply a spatial autoregressive network approach to account for the spill-over effects of migrant ethnic group economic resources and labour market outcomes. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882438
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Endogenous assimilation and immigrant adjustment in longitudinal data
Beenstock, Michael; Chiswick, Barry R.; Paltiel, Ari - 2005
reject the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis (IAH), which predicts that immigrants with shorter durations in 1983 should have … assimilation. We show that since the return to destination-specific skills increased during this period because of the very large … immigration, the assimilation curve changed its shape in a way that made it difficult to estimate even using panel data. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267467
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Endogenous Assimilation and Immigrant Adjustment in Longitudinal Data
Beenstock, Michael; Chiswick, Barry R.; Paltiel, Ari - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
reject the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis (IAH), which predicts that immigrants with shorter durations in 1983 should have … assimilation. We show that since the return to destination-specific skills increased during this period because of the very large … immigration, the assimilation curve changed its shape in a way that made it difficult to estimate even using panel data. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761864
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401764
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The Long Run Gender Origins of Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Australia's Convict History
Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa; Chang, Simon; Smyth, Russell; … - 2024
This paper extends prior theory linking present-day sex ratios to present-day propensity for entrepreneurship among men backward in time to explore the long-run gender origins of entrepreneurship. We argue that present-day propensity for entrepreneurship among men will be higher in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015061940
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Euroskepticism in the Crisis: More Mood than Economy
Ritzen, Jo; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Wehner, Caroline - 2014
Before the Great Recession, rising income inequality within the European Union member states has been considered to be one driver for an increasing Euroskepticism. Using rich data on attitudes towards European integration from the Eurobarometer (EB) surveys, we revisit the issue by analyzing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333236
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Euroskepticism in the Crisis: More Mood than Economy
Ritzen, Jo; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Wehner, Caroline - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Before the Great Recession, rising income inequality within the European Union member states has been considered to be one driver for an increasing Euroskepticism. Using rich data on attitudes towards European integration from the Eurobarometer (EB) surveys, we revisit the issue by analyzing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010748385
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Dual Citizenship Rights: Do They Make More and Better Citizens?
Mazzolari, Francesca - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
citizenship rights not only increase the propensity to naturalize but may also promote economic assimilation. The effects of dual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822424
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The labor/land ratio and India's caste system
Duleep, Harriet - 2012
This paper proposes that India's caste system and involuntary labor were joint responses by a nonworking landowning class to a low labor/land ratio in which the rules of the caste system supported the institution of involuntary labor. The hypothesis is tested in two ways: longitudinally, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284017
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The Labor/Land Ratio and India's Caste System
Duleep, Harriet - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper proposes that India's caste system and involuntary labor were joint responses by a nonworking landowning class to a low labor/land ratio in which the rules of the caste system supported the institution of involuntary labor. The hypothesis is tested in two ways: longitudinally, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010552951