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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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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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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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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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Migration and educational aspirations: Another channel of brain gain?

Böhme, Marcus H. - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-24

International migration not only enables individuals to earn higher wages but also exposes them to new environments … caregivers in migrant households. Estimates for Moldova show that international migration raises parental aspirations in … shocks in the destination countries and migration networks. These results imply that aspirations are a highly relevant …

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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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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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Russian migrants to Russia: Assimilation and local labor market effects

Lazareva, Olga - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-25

after about ten years after the peak of migration wave. …

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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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