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Does expanding health insurance beyond formal-sector workers encourage informality? : measuring the impact of Mexico’s Seguro Popular
Aterido, Reyes; Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Pagés, Carmen - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009419152
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The foreign-born population in the European Union and its contribution to national tax and benefit systems : some insights from recent household survey data
Barbone, Luca; Bontch-Osmolovsky, Misha; Zaidi, Salman - 2009
European Union. On examining the demographic and socio-economic background of the migrant population (both from within as well … countries. Using data on average incomes and taxes paid and benefits received by migrant and non-migrant households, the authors … find no evidence to support the contention that migrant workers contribute much less in taxes than the native …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003833198
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Do immigrants push natives towards safer jobs? : exposure to COVID-19 in the European Union
Bossavie, Laurent; Garrote Sanchez, Daniel; Makovec, Mattia - 2020
This paper assesses the impact of immigration to Western Europe on the exposure of native-born workers to economic and health risks created by the COVID-19 pandemic. Using various measures of occupational risks, it first shows that immigrant workers, especially those coming from lower-income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012434618
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Career placement of skilled migrants in the U.S. labor market : a dynamic approach
Neagu, Ileana Cristina - 2009
"The initial occupational placements of male immigrants in the U.S. labor market vary significantly by country of origin even when education and other factors are taken into account. Does the heterogeneity persist over time? Using data from the 1980, 1990, and 2000 U.S. Censuses, this study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003833035
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Split decisions : family finance when a policy discontinuity allocates overseas work
Clemens, Michael A.; Tiongson, Erwin R. - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009686112
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Brain waste? : Educated immigrants in the US labor market
Mattoo, Aaditya; Neagu, Ileana Cristina; Özden, Çağlar - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002991556
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The effect of immigrant concentration at school on natives’ achievement : does length of stay in the host country matter?
Bossavie, Laurent - 2018
Using a rich data set of primary school students, this paper estimates the effects of immigrant concentration in the classroom on the academic achievement of natives. In contrast with previous contributions, it exploits rare information on age-at-migration to estimate separate spillover effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011902824
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Shoring up economic refugees : Venezuelan migrants in the Ecuadoran labor market
Olivieri, Sergio; Ortega, Francesc; Rivadeneira, Ana; … - 2020
Ecuador became the third largest receiver of the 4.3 million Venezuelans who left their country in the last five years, hosting around 10 percent of them. Little is known about the characteristics of these migrants and their labor market outcomes. This paper fills this gap by analyzing a new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297861
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The missing market for work permits
Lokshin, Michael; Ravallion, Martin - 2019
Citizens have a right to accept any job offer in their country, but that right is not marketable or automatically extended to foreigners. Yet, some citizens have useful things to do if they could rent out their right-to-work, and there are foreigners who would value the new options for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114367
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Alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms : impacts on routine preventative health clinic visits in Burkina Faso
Akresh, Richard; De Walque, Damien; Kazianga, Harounan - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009501967