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Decomposing immigrant wage assimilation: The role of workplaces and occupations
Eliasson, Tove - 2013
This article uses a matched employer-employee panel data of the Swedish labor market to study immigrant wage assimilation, decomposing the wage catch-up into parts which can be attributed to relative wage growth within and between workplaces and occupations. This study shows that failing to...
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The returns to skill and racial difference in parenting: Evidence from the civil rights movement
Thompson, Owen - 2011
On average, the parental practices adopted by African American parents of young children are much less cognitively stimulating than those of their white counterparts. This paper argues that these differences stem from the low rates of return to human capital historically experienced by African...
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Macroeconomic Instability, Migration, and the Option Value of Education
Katz, Eliakim; Rapoport, Hillel - 2001
We explore the relation between variability in the rate of return to human capital and investment in education in the context of migration. Specifically, we show that if migration is a possibility, such variability in the rate of return to human capital can induce residents of developing...
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Ethnic Discrimination and the Migration of Skilled Labor
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2001
find that immigration restrictions set by receiving countries have the paradoxical effect of creating migration flows which …
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Age at migration and social integration
Åslund, Olof; Böhlmark, Anders; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2009
The paper studies childhood migrants and examines how age at migration affects their ensuing integration at the residential market, the labor market, and the marriage market. We use population-wide Swedish data and compare outcomes as adults among siblings arriving at different ages in order to...
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Informal incentives and labor markets
Fahn, Matthias; Murooka, Takeshi - 2022
results are consistent with empirical evidence on immigration and a gender pay gap, and provide new testable implications. …
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The labor market experience and impact of undocumented workers
Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Quispe-Agnoli, Myriam - 2008
Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, the authors find that average wages among documented workers are lower in industries that employ undocumented workers and that a greater share of undocumented workers in those industries further lowers wages. In addition, undocumented workers...
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Immigration and Majority Voting on Income Redistriubtion - Is there a Case for Opposition from Natives?
Mayr, Karin - 2003
This paper examines the effect of immigration on the level of income redistribution via majority voting on the income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294599
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The fiscal impact of immigrants in Austria - A generational accounting analysis
Mayr, Karin - 2004
1998 as well as the inter-temporal fiscal impact of immigration to Austria. Immigrants affect inter-temporal fiscal balance …. The overall fiscal effect of immigration is found positive, under the assumption that the age and fiscal characteristics … payments during working age. However, immigration is not likely to achieve inter-temporal fiscal balance, even if immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294623
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Optimal quota for sector-specific immigration
Mayr, Karin - 2008
Sectoral labor supply shortage is a cause of concern in many OECD countries and has raised support for immigration as a … compensating wage differential for working in one sector rather than in another. We identify price and wage effects of immigration … majority vote on immigration into a given sector as well as the social optimum. The main findings are that i) the old determine …
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