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Legal status at entry, economic performance, and self-employment proclivity: a bi-national study of immigrants
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2005
, although only among a number of other determinants. For Germany, legal status at entry is important; former refugees and those … migrants who arrive through family reunification are less likely to work full-time; refugees are also less self-employed. Those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272326
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Migration, transfers and child labor
Dimova, Ralitza; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2011
We examine agricultural child labor in the context of emigration, transfers, and the ability to hire outside labor. We start by developing a theoretical background based on Basu and Van, (1998), Basu, (1999) and Epstein and Kahana (2008) and show how hiring labor from outside the household and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278817
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Migration, Transfers and Child Labor
Dimova, Ralitza; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We examine agricultural child labor in the context of emigration, transfers, and the ability to hire outside labor. We start by developing a theoretical background based on Basu and Van, (1998), Basu, (1999) and Epstein and Kahana (2008) and show how hiring labor from outside the household and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643153
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The Effect of Emigration on Child Labor
Epstein, Gil S.; Kahana, Nava - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We present a general model of child labor that incorporates the various components presented in the literature as explanations for its existence. Our proposal is to mitigate the phenomenon by encouraging temporary emigration. It emerges that the remittances sent by the emigrating parents might...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763584
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Skill Downgrading among Refugees and Economic Immigrants in Germany: Evidence from the Syrian Refugee Crisis
Nikolov, Plamen; Salarpour Goodarzi, Leila; Titus, David - 2022
examines the determinants of skill downgrading among two types of immigrants – refugees and economic immigrants – in the German … labor markets between 1984 and 2018. We find that refugees downgrade more than economic immigrants, and this discrepancy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351965
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Cousins from Overseas: The Labour Market Impact of a Major Forced Return Migration Shock
Bohnet, Lara; Peralta, Susana; Pereira dos Santos, João - 2022
We study the labour market impact of the return of half a million Portuguese due to onset of the colonial war in 1974. Both the size and similarity with the native population (almost 80% were Portuguese-born) make this a unique shock. We use census data from 1960 and 1981 to document a decrease...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426444
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Determinants and Dynamics of Forced Migration to Europe: Evidence from a 3-D Model of Flows and Stocks
Brück, Tilman; Dunker, Kai M.; Ferguson, Neil T.N.; … - 2018
Violent conflict is a well-recognised driver of forced migration but literature does not usually consider the pull factors that might also cause irregular movements. In turn, the decision to leave and of where to go are rarely considered separately. This is in contrast to literature on regular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931799
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Using Cross-Survey Imputation to Estimate Poverty for Venezuelan Refugees in Colombia
Sarr, Ibrahima; Dang, Hai-Anh; Gutierrez, Carlos … - 2024
performance of a recently developed cross-survey imputation method to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Colombia … Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. We find that certain variable transformation methods can help resolve these … refugees in various country settings. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014567546
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Refugees' and Irregular Migrants' Self-Selection into Europe: Who Migrates Where?
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu - 2019
We analyze self-selection of refugees and irregular migrants and test our theory in the context of the European refugee … large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and the self-selection and sorting of refugees and irregular migrants. Refugees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179993
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Life Out of the Shadows: Impacts of Amnesties in the Lives of Migrants
Ibáñez, Ana María; Moya, Andrés; Ortega, María Adelaida - 2022
This paper examines the effects of a government regularization program offered to half a million Venezuelan refugees in … Colombia. For this purpose, 2,232 surveys of refugee families were collected and used to compare refugees who arrived in … vulnerability and awards public transfers (40 pp), and financial services (64.3 pp), relative to other refugees. The program also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882625