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How skilled immigration may improve economic equality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 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 : IZAJOM 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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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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Economic liberalisation and the mobility of minority groups: evidence from Māori in New Zealand
Sin, Isabelle; Stillman, Steven - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 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 Māori compares to that of Europeans in New Zealand in the period after these reforms. It is often suggested that Māori are less...
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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 … destination combinations, which allows for detailed analysis of different migration flows. This provides an innovative multi …
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Minimum wages, earnings, and migration
Boffy-Ramirez, Ernest - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 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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Immigration and wages : new evidence from the African American Great Migration
Gardner, John - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 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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Remittances, school quality, and household education expenditures in Nepal
Bansak, Cynthia; Chezum, Brian; Giri, Animesh - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 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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The working hours of immigrants in Germany : temporary versus permanent
Kahanec, Martin; Shields, Michael P. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 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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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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