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What is behind native-immigrant social income gaps?

Anastossova, Lubomira; Paligorova, Teodora - 2006

The recent EU expansion raised fears of potential migration motivated by welfare receipt. In this paper we use comparable data from five countries - Sweden, Belgium, Germany, Norway and the U.S. - to ask whether immigrants benefit more from social support than natives. Looking at the European...

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Immigrant misallocation

Birinci, Serdar; Leibovici, Fernando; See, Kurt - 2021

We quantify the barriers that impede the integration of immigrants into foreign labor markets and investigate their aggregate implications. We develop a model of occupational choice with natives and immigrants of multiple types whose decisions are subject to wedges which distort their allocation...

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The effect of attitudes toward migrants on migrant skill composition

Avdiu, Besart - 2017

I investigate the effect of attitudes toward migrants on the average skill composition of immigrants in destination countries. A model is presented showing that negative attitudes toward migrants in general can reduce the average skill composition. The intuition for the result is that the highly...

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Are immigrants paid less for education?

Anastassova, Lubomira - 2010

This paper is on measuring the gap in returns to education between foreign-born and native workers in France, Germany, and Austria and investigates the extent to which this gap can be explained by a mis-match between the actual and the years of schooling typical for a given occupation. The...

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Married women's employment and motherhood employment penalty by couple's educational attainments across 10 countries

Kang, Ji Young; Lee, Wonjin; Ham, Sunyu; Wang, Julia … - 2022

This study examines how and to what extent a couple’s education is associated with married women’s employment and the …). Overall, Denmark and Norway show the highest level of married women’s employment and no motherhood penalty. Our findings … the United States and Italy. We also find significant variation in married women’s employment in East Asian countries …

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Does immigration affect native's labor market outcomes in Germany?

Tas, Dilan; Kastrat, Merima - 2019

immigration on natives' hourly wages and employment was examined, by using microdata for Germany. Native workers' educational … admission of immigrants into Germany has contributed to the country being the second largest immigration destination in the …' hourly wages and employment. The findings showed that the share of immigrants, had a positive effect on natives' wages and …

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Determinants of household earnings inequality : the role of labour market trends and changing household structure

Chen, Wen-hao; Förster, Michael F.; Llena-Nozal, Ana - 2013

- increasing dispersion of individual wages and changes in men's and women's employment rates. Others relate to shifts in household … rising women's employment exerted a sizable equalising effect. However, changes in labour market factors, in particular …

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The determinants of the prevalence of single mothers : a cross-country analysis

González, Libertad (contributor) - 2005

that single mothers are more prevalent when female wages are lower. Higher male earnings and employment opportunities in a …

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Delay in marriage and income inequality in Japan : the impact of the increased number of unmarried adults living with their parents on the household economy

Shirahase, Sawako - 2009

The continuous decline in the fertility rate has been witnessed since 1980 in Japan. Japan’s total fertility rate in 2005 is 1.32, which is far below the replacement rate, 2.08. One of the main reasons for declining the fertility rate is the delay in marriage or even shy away from marriage...

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The changing association between marriage, work, and child poverty in the US : 1974 - 2010

Baker, Regina S. - 2015

Marriage and work have long been central to debates regarding poverty and the family. Although ample research demonstrate their negative association with child poverty, both marriage and work have undergone major transformations over recent decades. Consequently, it is plausible that their...

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