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The literature has robustly documented a negative migrant-native wage gap in developed economies. Yet empirical evidence of pay differences has been elusive for developing countries. We approach this question by leveraging internationally harmonised microdata with 1.5 million individuals from 6...
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We analyze marital matching on income using an extremely rich Dutch data set containing all income tax files over four … years. We develop a novel methodology that directly extends previous contributions to allow for highly flexible matching … assortative matching. We also show that standard approaches, which consider all married couples using current incomes, may …
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rely on administrative data and matching methods to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention in terms of the …
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Higher Education Statistics Agency graduate survey data. Using propensity score matching, the returns to study-related stays …
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The issues of the forced migration and integration of refugees in the EU society and labour markets are high on the …
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In response to the two waves of Covid-19 in 2020, the Italian government implemented a general lockdown in March, but geographically targeted policies during fall. We exploit this natural experiment to compare the effects of the two policies in a difference-in-differences design, leveraging a...
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This paper explores the feasibility of calculating absolute poverty lines on the basis of minimum food expenditures in …
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In this paper we highlight a new complementary channel to the business and social network effect à la Rauch (2001) through which immigrants generate increased export flows from the regions in which they settle to their countries of origin: they can become entrepreneurs. Using very small-scale...
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