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This paper investigates how the size of co-ethnic networks at the time of arrival affect the economic success of immigrants in Germany. Applying panel analysis with a large set of fixed effects and controls, we isolate the association between initial network size and long-run immigrant outcomes....
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This paper examines the evolution of immigrant earnings in the United States between 1970 and 2010. There are cohort effects not only in wage levels, with more recent cohorts having lower entry wages through 1990, but also in the rate of wage growth, with more recent cohorts experiencing less...
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This paper examines the impact of state merit-aid programs on the labor market attachment of high school-aged youths. The labor force participation rate of teenagers has fallen substantially in recent decades, coinciding with the introduction of merit-aid programs. These programs reduce the...
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We show that the Roy model has more precise predictions about the self-selection of migrants than previously realized … imply a stochastic dominance relationship between the earnings distributions of migrants and non-migrants. We use the Danish … emigrants in terms of pre-emigration earnings: the income distribution for the migrants almost stochastically dominates the …
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administrative data from Denmark to investigate the impact of exposure to Ramadan in utero on labor market outcomes of adult Muslim … males, including employment status, annual salary, hourly wage rate, and hours of work. Our findings indicate that potential … lower likelihood of employment, a lower salary, and reduced labor supply, but not necessarily a lower wage rate. We also …
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Using longitudinal data on the universe of workers in Denmark during the period 1991-2008 we track the labor market … effects on native unskilled wages, employment and occupational mobility …
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Denmark. The first reform, implemented in 2002, lowered benefits for non-EU immigrants by about 50%, with no changes for …
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whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational …
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In this paper, we investigate the effect of federal welfare reform on the employment, hours of work and marriage rates … employment and attachment to the labor market. TANF appears to have had a larger effect on the least educated native-born women …
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maternal employment during a child's first three and first 15 years on that child's grade point average in 9th grade. We … address the endogeneity of employment by including a rich set of household control variables, instrumenting for employment … maternal employment has a positive effect on children's academic performance in all specifications, particularly when women …
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