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Language and culture as drivers of migration : linguistic and cultural barriers affect international migration flows

Adserà, Alícia - 2015

migrants arrive. Thus, it is increasingly important to consider what role differences in culture and language play in migration … decisions. Recent work shows that culture and language may explain migration patterns to developed countries even better than … in culture and language may create barriers that prevent the full realization of the potential economic gains from …

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Where do immigrants retire to? : Immigrants' retirement decisions can greatly affect health care and social protection costs

Coulon, Augustin de - 2016

As migration rates increase across the world, the choice of whether to retire in the host or home country is becoming a key decision for up to 15% of the world’s population, and this proportion is growing rapidly. Large waves of immigrants who re-settled in the second half of the 20th century...

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Legalizing undocumented immigrants : while legalization benefits most undocumented immigrants, deciding how to regularize them is challenging

Bansak, Cynthia - 2016

Addressing unauthorized immigration is controversial. Countries have adopted a variety of legalization programs …

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Do immigrants improve the health of native workers? : immigration crowds native workers out of risky jobs and into less strenuous work, with consequent benefits to their health

Giuntella, Osea - 2014

Public debate on immigration focuses on its effects on wages and employment, yet the discussion typically fails to … consider the effects of immigration on working conditions that affect workers' health. There is growing evidence that …. Recent studies show that as immigration rises, native workers are pushed into less demanding jobs. Such market adjustments …

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Naturalization and citizenship : who benefits? : liberalizing access to citizenship has labor market benefits for immigrants and can improve their assimilation

Gathmann, Christina - 2015

Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that many immigrants fail to integrate economically. Research shows that the option to naturalize has considerable economic benefits for eligible immigrants, even in countries with a tradition of restrictive policies. First-generation...

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Immigrant labor and work-family decisions of native-born women : as immigration lowers childcare and housework costs, nativie-born women alter their work and fertility decisions

Furtado, Delia - 2015

Many countries are reviewing immigration policy, focusing on wage and employment effects for workers whose jobs may be … threatened by immigration. Less attention is given to effects on prices of goods and services. The effect on childcare prices is … affected by the difficulty of combining work and family. New research suggests immigration lowers the cost of household …

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Migrants and educational achievement gaps : avoiding segregation and compensating for parental disadvantage can reduce migrants' educational achievement gabs

Entorf, Horst - 2015

As global migration flows increase, so do the number of migrant students in host country schools. Yet migrants' achievement scores lag well behind those of their nativeborn schoolmates. Performance gaps are explained largely by differences in migrant parents' socio-economic background, cultural...

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Do minimum wages induce immigration? : the minimum wage affects international migration flows and the internal relocation of immigrants

Giulietti, Corrado - 2015

immigration, contrasting evidence shows that immigrants are less likely to move into areas with higher or more frequent increases …

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Can immigrants ever earn as much as native workers? : immigrants initially earn less than natives; the wage gap falls over time, but for many immigrant groups it never closes

Anderson, Kathryn H. - 2015

Immigrants contribute to the economic development of the host country, but they earn less at entry and it takes many years for them to achieve parity of income. For some immigrant groups, the wage gap never closes. There is a wide variation across countries in the entry wage gap and the speed of...

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Intermarriage and the economic success of immigrants : who is the driving factor - the native spouses or the immigrants themselves?

Nottmeyer, Olga - 2015

Marriages between immigrants and natives (intermarriages) are often associated with economic success and interpreted as an indicator of social integration. Intermarried immigrant men are on average better educated and work in better paid jobs than nonintermarried immigrant men. In this context,...

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