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This paper examines whether an important cultural institution in India - dowry - can enable male migration by increasing the liquidity available to young men after marriage. We hypothesize that one cost of migration is the disruption of traditional elderly support structures, where sons live...
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opportunities outside the home. Frontier women were less likely to report "gainful employment," but among those who did, relatively …
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- the lifting of the Saudi women's driving ban - on women's employment by randomizing rationed spaces in driver's training … effects on employment are only observed among never-married and widowed women, who negotiate employment with their fathers … women's employment. They provide evidence that men's resistance to wives' employment poses a binding constraint to female …
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The growing education and employment of women are usually cited as crucial forces behind the decline of marriage since …. Second, immigration had a dynamic effect on partner search costs. Its short-run effect was to fragment the marriage market … marriage and later marriage in the 1890s and 1900s. As immigration declined, the long-run effect was for immigrants and their …
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nature of this immigration, but have not analysed the impacts on the economy. This paper presents a theoretical and empirical … analysis of the impact of illegal immigration on the economy of the small open type, like that of Greece. The theoretical … analysis uses a small stylised model to show that there is no unequivocal case for illegal immigration to lead to declines in …
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workers and 43% of the gap for women. An analysis of undocumented immigrants legalized after the 1986 U.S. immigration policy …
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This paper analyzes the welfare effects of immigration and its subsequent effect on ethnic diversity in a model … individuals and endogenous levels of immigration and assimilation. In the model, an increase in ethnic diversity reduces the … spillovers effect for the majority. Nonetheless, immigration can be welfare improving for the majority ethnic group even if it …
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This paper studies the effect of increased immigration in Austria on the unemployment risk of young natives. Austria …
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This paper examines the effect of immigration on workplace safety, an understudied outcome in the literature. We use a … prevented shifts between occupations. Finally, we find no effects of immigration on the workplace safety of immigrants. These … results add a previously unexplored dimension to the immigration debate that should be taken into account when evaluating the …
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sorting into the sectors, models of the self-employment decision are estimated. Self-employed immigrants are found to do …
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