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Bridges or buffers? Motives behind immigrants' religiosity
Garcia-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - In: IZA Journal of Migration 2 (2013), pp. 1-23
This study reviews and evaluates the motives and incentives behind immigrants' religiosity, focusing on the two sides of the Atlantic - Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to identify indicators for the type of incentive - whether immigrants'...
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Do immigrants squeeze natives out of bad schedules? Evidence from Italy
In: IZA Journal of Migration 1 (2012), pp. 1-23
This paper documents the effect of immigrant concentration on natives' work schedules. I show that immigrants are more likely to work at non-standard hours (i.e. evenings, nights and Sundays) and that a higher proportion of immigrants in the local labor market is associated with a lower...
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The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants: A survey of the literature for receiving countries
Nathan, Max - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014), pp. 1-20
economy - and the role of high-skilled migrants in these processes. This paper surveys the emerging "wider impacts" literature …
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The cost of immigrants' occupational mismatch and the effectiveness of postarrival policies in Canada
Aydede, Yigit; Dar, Atul - In: IZA Journal of Migration 5 (2016) 9, pp. 1-23
Using the 2006 Census, we create a continuous index that quantifies the relatedness between 1375 fields of study and 520 occupations for native-born workers and use it as the benchmark reflecting the "common" matching quality in Canadian labor markets that internationally educated immigrant...
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Immigrant assimilation and male labor market inequality
Mason, Patrick L. - In: IZA Journal of Migration 5 (2016) 17, pp. 1-32
-Americans. The immigration process selects black immigrants who have or who would have achieved middle income or higher status in …
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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
local and aggregate wage effect estimates has implications for our general understanding of how immigration and wages are …
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Is the lower return to immigrants' foreign schooling a postarrival problem in Canada?
Aydede, Yigit; Dar, Atul - In: IZA Journal of Migration 6 (2017) 4, pp. 1-25
Using the 2006 Canadian Census, this paper investigates the lower return to immigrants' foreign education credentials after adjusting for their occupational matching in hosting labor markets. We develop two continuous indices that quantify the matching quality of the native-born in both...
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The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants: a survey of the literature for receiving countries
Nathan, Max - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014) 1, pp. 1-20
G23; G24; J15; J61; L5; L26; M12; M13; O31; O32; R11 </AbstractSection> Copyright Nathan; licensee Springer. 2014
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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
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 planned nature of its 1945-1991 immigration flows, we can exclude … the possibility that migrants came with an intention to acquire host country citizenship. Using data from a 2007 survey of …
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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 overall convergence in average earnings between immigrants and natives across generations. This convergence hides a divergence in average earnings between groups of immigrants...
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