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Good and bad institutions: Is the debate over? ; cross-country firm-level evidence from the textile industry
Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Dimova, Ralitza - 2011
Using firm-level data from nine developing countries we demonstrate that (a) certain institutions like restrictive labour market regulations that are considered to be bad for economic growth might be beneficial for production efficiency, whereas (b) good business environment which is considered...
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The Role of Labor Market Institutions in the Impact of Immigration on Wages and Employment
Foged, Mette; Hasager, Linea; Yasenov, Vasil - 2021
We study the role of institutions in affecting the labor market impacts of immigration using a cross-country meta … immigration from 61 academic studies covering 18 developed countries. The mean and median impact on the relative wage of directly … from distributional (relative) wage consequences of immigration but exacerbate the impacts on average wages in the economy …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262281
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262725
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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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Immigrant wages in the Spanish labour market: does the origin of human capital matter?
Sanromá, Esteban; Ramos, Raúl; Simón, Hipólito - 2009
The aim of this paper is to analyse the role played by the different components of human capital in the wage determination of recent immigrants within the Spanish labour market. Using microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes 2007, the paper examines returns to human capital of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269038