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Immigrants in the UK and in West Germany - Relative Income Position, Income Portfolio, and Redistribution Effects

Büchel, Felix; Frick, Joachim R. - 2003

Based on data from the BHPS and the GSOEP, we analyse the economic performance of various ethnic groups in the UK and West Germany, as well as the effects of income redistribution on these populations. Taking the indigenous population of each country as the reference category, we find that, as a...

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Too Fast, Too Furious? Digital Credit Delivery Speed and Repayment Rates

Burlando, Alfredo; Kuhnk, Michael A.; Prina, Silvia - 2023

Digital loans are a source of fast, short-term credit for millions of people. While digital credit broadens market access and reduces frictions, default rates are high. We study the role of the speed of delivery of digital loans on repayment. Our study uses unique administrative data from a...

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From illegal to legal: estimating previous illegal experience among new legal immigrants to the United States

Jasso, Guillermina; Massey, Douglas S.; Rosenzweig, … - 2008

This paper develops a framework for estimating previous illegal experience among annual cohorts of new legal immigrants to the United States - using public-use administrative microdata alone, survey data alone, and the two jointly - and provides estimates for the FY 1996 cohort of new...

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

Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999

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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The Elusive Concept of Immigrant Quality: Evidence from 1970-1990

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2002

The labor market "quality" of immigrants is a subject of debate among immigration researchers, and a major public … in the immigration flows from different countries, sampling error, and the effects of emigration – is fundamentally …

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Labor Mobility of Immigrants: Training, Experience, Language and Opportunities

Cohen, Sarit; Eckstein, Zvi - 2002

This paper analyzes the labor mobility and human capital accumulation of male immigrants who moved from the former Soviet Union to Israel. We formulate an estimable dynamic choice model for employment and training in blue and white-collar occupations, where the labor market randomly offered...

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A Macroeconomic Experiment in Mass Immigration

Hercowitz, Zvi; Yashiv, Eran - 2002

This paper studies the effects of mass immigration from the former USSR to Israel in the 1990s on the employment of the … native employment and the relative price of domestic goods – is estimated, finding negative effects of immigration on native … employment a year after arrival. The delay in the effect is attributed to a positive impact of immigration on the excess demand …

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

Fougère, Denis; Safi, Mirna - 2008

Naturalization is usually regarded as an important sign of civic and political integration amongst immigrants, but it can also be seen as a factor of their economic integration. The aim of this study is to analyze the naturalization phenomenon in France and examine its link with the immigrants'...

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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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Inequality of learning amongst immigrant children in industrialised countries

Schnepf, Sylke Viola - 2008

of this paper is to examine educational inequalities among immigrants in eight high immigration countries: Australia …

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