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Differences in employment outcomes for college town stayers and leavers
Winters, John V. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 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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Migration and aspirations : are migrants trapped on a hedonic treadmill?
Czaika, Mathias; Vothknecht, Marc - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-21
Based on longitudinal information from two waves of the Indonesian Family and Life Survey (IFLS) in 2000 and 2007, we find evidence that migrants are self-selected along higher individual aspirations acquired (or, inherited) before migration. About 70 per cent of aspiration differentials can be...
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The regional impact of cultural diversity on wages : evidence from Australia
Elias, Amanuel; Paradies, Yin - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 12, pp. 1-24
This paper investigates the impact of cultural diversity on labour market outcomes, particularly on wages across regions using a large longitudinal data. We apply an instrumental variable approach and account for individual and time fixed effects. Our findings indicate that the current level of...
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Cultural diversity and subjective well-being
Longhi, Simonetta - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-19
This paper analyses the impact that diversity has on life satisfaction of people living in England. In England, and in many other countries, local communities are becoming more diverse in terms of country of birth, ethnicity and religion of residents, with unclear consequences on the well-being...
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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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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 largely been overlooked in the literature. In this...
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Differences in employment outcomes for college town stayers and leavers
Winters, John V. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010148472
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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
indicators has emerged as remittances to developing countries have risen substantially over the past decade. If remittances … capital investment, remittances may serve as a vehicle for growth. In this paper, we use the 2010 Nepal Living Standards … Survey III (NLSS III) to examine how remittances affect household expenditures on human capital investment. Overall, our …
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Why do migrants remit? : testing hypotheses for the case of Morocco
Bouoiyour, Jamal; Miftah, Amal - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-20
We use Moroccan data to study the determinants of international migrants' remittances, testing the altruistic and … welfare hypotheses. In particular, we analyze and assess what motivates migrants to send remittances back home. Our results … lend support to the altruistic hypothesis suggesting that remittances are sent to households with low levels of welfare …
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Can immigrants help women "have it all"? : immigrant labor and women's joint fertility and labor supply decisions
Furtado, Delia - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-19
This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high-skilled US-born women in cities that have experienced larger...
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