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The Economic Assimilation of Irish Famine Migrants to the United States

Collins, William J. - 2018

decline in the observable human capital of famine-era Irish migrants compared to pre-famine Irish migrants and to other groups …

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Immigration, Jobs and Employment Protection : Evidence from Europe

D'Amuri, Francesco - 2011

In this paper we analyze the effect of immigrants on native jobs in fourteen Western European countries. We test whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational distribution of natives with similar education and age. We...

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How Do Immigrants Spend Time? : The Process of Assimilation

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2010

Using 2004-2008 data from the American Time Use Survey, we show that sharp differences between the time use of immigrants and natives become noticeable when activities are distinguished by incidence and intensity. We develop a theory of the process of assimilation--what immigrants do with their...

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Exposure to Past Immigration Waves and Attitudes toward Newcomers

Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

How does previous exposure to massive immigrant inflows affect concerns about current immigration and the integration of refugees? To answer this question, we investigate attitudes toward newcomers among natives and previous immigrants. In areas that in the 1990s received higher inflows of...

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Scared Straight? Threat and Assimilation of Refugees in Germany

Jaschke, Philipp; Sardoschau, Sulin; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and economic assimilation of refugees, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in their allocation across German regions between 2013 and 2016. We combine novel survey data on cultural preferences and economic outcomes of...

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The Social Integration of International Migrants : Evidence from the Networks of Syrians in Germany

Bailey, Michael; Johnston, Drew M.; Koenen, Martin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We use de-identified data from Facebook to study the social integration of Syrian migrants in Germany, a country that … received a large influx of refugees during the Syrian Civil War. We construct measures of migrants' social integration based on … relative rate at which they befriend local Syrian migrants versus German natives (relative friending). We follow the friending …

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Fighting Procrastination in the Workplace : An Experiment

Cadena, Ximena - 2011

intervention also improved worker satisfaction and reduced stress levels, without affecting the quality of the loan officers …

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The Changing Distribution of Job Satisfaction

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1999

quantiles rose relative to that of workers in lower quantiles. An identical phenomenon is observed among men in West Germany in …

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Psychiatric Disorders and Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from the National Comorbidity Survey - Replication

Chatterji, Pinka - 2008

This paper uses the National Comorbidity Survey - Replication to estimate the effects of recent psychiatric disorder on employment, hours worked, and earnings. We employ methods proposed in Altonji, Elder and Taber (2005) which use selection on observable traits to provide information regarding...

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Psychiatric Disorders and Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from the National Latino and Asian American Study

Chatterji, Pinka - 2005

This paper investigates to what extent psychiatric disorders and mental distress affect labor market outcomes among ethnic minorities of Latino and Asian descent, most of whom are immigrants. Using data from the National Latino and Asian American Study, we examine the labor market effects of...

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