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Economic liberalisation and the mobility of minority groups: Evidence from Māori in New Zealand

Sin, Isabelle; Stillman, Steven - In: IZA Journal of Migration 5 (2016) 4, pp. 1-18

census data to examine how the internal mobility of M¯aori compares to that of Europeans in New Zealand in the period after …

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From immigrants to (non-)citizens: political economy of naturalisations in Latvia

Ivļevs, Artjoms; King, Roswitha M. - In: IZA Journal of Migration 1 (2012), pp. 1-23

We study the determinants of the willingness to acquire citizenship of Latvia by 'non-citizens' - the former Soviet migrants and their descendants born on the territory of Latvia. The country of Latvia serves as an instructive laboratory for the analysis of naturalisations: due to the centrally...

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Human capital transmission and the earnings of second-generation immigrants in Sweden

Hammarstedt, Mats; Palme, Mårten - In: IZA Journal of Migration 1 (2012), pp. 1-23

We compare the earnings and the intergenerational earnings mobility of immigrants with natives in Sweden. We find an … have lower intergenerational earnings mobility within groups with similar ethnic backgrounds. Immigrant groups with … relatively low intergenerational earnings mobility increased their average relative earnings in the second generation. The …

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Skilled migration and the transfer of institutional norms

Beine, Michel; Sekkat, Khalid - In: IZA Journal of Migration 2 (2013), pp. 1-19

We examine two impacts of international emigration on the evolution of the institutions in the origin countries. The first impact concerns the influence of emigration per se (i.e. people who left the country can voice more or less from abroad). The second impact relates to the transfer of the...

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Differences in employment outcomes for college town stayers and leavers

Winters, John V. - In: IZA Journal of Migration 1 (2012), pp. 1-22

New college graduates must choose whether to stay in the geographic area where they completed their degree or move to a new location to begin their careers. This paper classifies 41 U.S. metropolitan areas as 'college towns' and investigates differences in employment outcomes between college...

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The analytics of the wage effect of immigration

Borjas, George J. - In: IZA Journal of Migration 2 (2013), pp. 1-25

The theory of factor demand has important implications for the study of the impact of immigration on wages. This paper derives the theoretical implications in the context of a general equilibrium model where the wage impact depends on the elasticity of product demand, the rate at which the...

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The effects of active labour market policies for immigrants receiving social assistance in Denmark

Heinesen, Eskil; Husted, Leif; Rosholm, Michael - In: IZA Journal of Migration 2 (2013), pp. 1-22

We estimate the effect of active labour-market programmes on the exit rate to regular employment for non-western immigrants in Denmark who receive social assistance. We use the timing-of-events duration model and rich administrative data. We find large positive post-programme effects, and,...

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Minimum wages, earnings, and migration

Boffy-Ramirez, Ernest - In: IZA Journal of Migration 2 (2013), pp. 1-24

Does increasing a state's minimum wage induce migration into the state? Previous literature has shown mobility in … response to welfare benefit differentials across states, yet few have examined the minimum wage as a cause of mobility …

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Immigrant over- and under-education: The role of home country labour market experience

Tani, Massimiliano; Vadean, Florin - In: IZA Journal of Migration 1 (2012), pp. 1-21

Literature on the immigrant labour market mismatch has not explored the signal provided by the quality of home country work experience, particularly that of education-occupation mismatch prior to migration.We show that type of work experience in the home country plays a significant role in...

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On the differential impact of the recent economic downturn on work safety by nativity: The Spanish experience

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Borra, Cristina - In: IZA Journal of Migration 2 (2013), pp. 1-26

This paper explores differences in work injury and fatality rates between immigrants and natives and how they may have been impacted by the recent economic downturn. Our focus is on Spain over the 2001-2010 decade -a period of time during which Spain received one of the largest immigrant inflows...

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