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How skilled immigration may improve economic equality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014), pp. 1-13

. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving …

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Migration, risk attitudes, and entrepreneurship: Evidence from a representative immigrant survey

Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014), pp. 1-25

Do more risk loving migrants opt for self-employment? We use a novel vignette-adjusted measure of risk preferences to investigate the link between risk aversion and entrepreneurship in migrant communities. Using an original representative household survey of the migrant population in the Greater...

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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 …

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Skill mismatch among migrant workers: Evidence from a large multi-country dataset

Visintin, Stefano; Tijdens, Kea; Klaveren, Maarten van - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-34

This article unravels the migrants' incidence of skill mismatch taking into consideration different migration flows … destination combinations, which allows for detailed analysis of different migration flows. This provides an innovative multi …

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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

Between 1984 and 1993, New Zealand undertook comprehensive market-oriented economic reforms. In this paper, we use census data to examine how the internal mobility of M¯aori compares to that of Europeans in New Zealand in the period after these reforms. It is often suggested that M¯aori are...

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Immigration and wages: new evidence from the African American Great Migration

Gardner, John - In: IZA Journal of Migration 5 (2016) 22, pp. 1-45

During the African American Great Migration, millions of blacks left the Southern USA in favor of cities in the North …. Despite the social and economic consequences of this migration, the question of its impacts on labor markets in the North has … aggregate Northern labor market to provide new evidence on the effects of the Great Migration on wages in the North, redoubling …

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The working hours of immigrants in Germany: Temporary versus permanent

Kahanec, Martin; Shields, Michael P. - In: IZA Journal of Migration 2 (2013), pp. 1-15

Migration is often viewed as an investment decision. Temporary migrants can be expected to invest less in accumulating …

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Remittances, school quality, and household education expenditures in Nepal

Bansak, Cynthia; Chezum, Brian; Giri, Animesh - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-19

A heightened interest in understanding the remitting practices of immigrants and their impact on a variety of economic indicators has emerged as remittances to developing countries have risen substantially over the past decade. If remittances primarily enhance consumption, they may have no...

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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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Ethnic persistence, assimilation and risk proclivity

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramons, Konstantinos - In: IZA Journal of Migration 1 (2012), pp. 1-23

This paper investigates whether immigrants adapt to the attitudes of the majority population in the host country by focusing on the effect of ethnic persistence and assimilation on individual risk proclivity. Employing information from a unique representative German survey, we find that...

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