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

Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-25

investigate the link between risk aversion and entrepreneurship in migrant communities. Using an original representative household … aversion and entrepreneurship. Our results show that the use of vignettes improves the significance of the results, as they … risk preferences and entrepreneurship reported in previous studies. …

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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 : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-20

In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call "the...

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

Visintin, Stefano; Tijdens, Kea Gartje; Klaveren, … - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-34

This article unravels the migrants' incidence of skill mismatch taking into consideration different migration flows. Mismatch is the situation in which workers have jobs for which lower skill levels are required compared to their education. We use a dataset (from a large multi-country web...

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Ethnic identity : a theoretical framework

Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler, Odelia - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-11

We present a basic theoretical framework of ethnic identity, i.e., the level of immigrant's commitment to his or her host society as well as the immigrant's commitment to his or her home society. Our model can explain the emerging empirical literature which studies the effect of the immigrants'...

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The effect of sharing a mother tongue with peers : evidence from North Carolina middle schools

Ahn, Thomas; Jepsen, Christopher - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-21

This paper provides the first analysis of the relationship between the language mix of Limited English Proficient (LEP) peers and student achievement, using detailed panel data from 2006 to 2012. Percent LEP has a negative association with mathematics and reading test scores, more so for non-LEP...

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Skills or culture? : an analysis of the decision to work by immigrant women in Italy

Accetturo, Antonio; Infante, Luigi - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-21

Activity and employment rates for immigrant women in many industrialised countries display a great variability across national groups. The aim of this paper is to assess whether this fact is due to a voluntary decision (i.e. large reservation wages by immigrants) or to an involuntary process...

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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 : IZAJOM 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...

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Ethnic discrimination in China's internet job board labor market

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-24

We conduct a large-scale field experiment to investigate how Chinese firms respond to Internet job board applications from ethnic minority and Han applicants. We signal ethnicity by using names that are typically Han Chinese and distinctively Mongolian, Tibetan, and Uighur. We find significant...

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From the bottom to the top: a more complete picture of the immigrant-native wage gap in Britain

Hunt, Priscillia - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-18

This paper investigates wage assimilation of foreign-born male workers in Britain over the period 1993 to 2009. Using Labour Force Survey data, the paper employs a methodology (Blinder-Oaxaca quantile regressions) to decompose the immigrant-native wage differential at the mean and across the...

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Do immigrants squeeze natives out of bad schedules? : evidence from Italy

Osea, Giuntella - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 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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