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concentration of migrants with low parental education, while migrants with high parental education are found to have no impact. The …
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(1999-2009) the Russian Federation became the world’s second largest recipient of migrants after the United States, while … includes a significant number of labour migrants from resource-poor to resource-rich states in the region, has had an …, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan have develop a high dependency on international money transfers from their labour migrants, having the …
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Abstract: This paper applies the Blinder-Oaxaca methodology in order to decompose the average earnings differentials between Greek workers and different groups of immigrants. We use information about 8,429 individuals of which 1,185 are immigrants. The data are drawn from the Greek Labor Force...
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relationship between that misperceptions about immigrants an immigration and discrimination against immigrants in labor market. Our … of an econometric model confirms that misperceptions about the size of immigration and its effects on the country …
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Abstract: This paper applies cointegration analysis and Granger non-causality tests in order to identify the direction of causality between migration in Greece and two macroeconomic variables: GDP and unemployment. We use annual data for the 1980-2011 period. The data are drawn from the...
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for migrants, as “closed berth” cabins, for two to eight passengers each, slowly supplanted older and less comfortable … capacity was in closed berths; by 1914, 35%. Steerage alone went from about 10% to 24% closed berths. Accommodation of migrants … corroborated. Closed berths for migrants came gradually to all routes regardless of shifting cartel effectiveness, passenger …
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different immigration policies. On the one hand, skill-neutral change implies an immigrant skill distribution that is dominated …-skill immigration along with high-skill immigration. We show consistency of our model's predictions with data from the United States and …
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The advent of rising immigration has spurred research into a number of important issues insofar as the indigenous labor …. Others, like the interrelationships among immigration flows, African-American male earnings, employment, and incarceration … association among immigration, Black male employment rates, and Black male incarceration rates over the period 1962-2006, ceteris …
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We analyze the impact of immigration on the host country within a search and matching model that allows for skill … although immigration raises the overall welfare,it may have distributional effects. Specifically, skilled workers gain in terms …
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Using individual data of Japan, this paper investigates how frequency of contact with foreigners is associated with the perceived outcomes of foreigner increases. Results showed that frequency of contact has a critical effect on perceptions and that its influence varies according to household...
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