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Minimum wages and the creation of illegal migration

Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler, Odelia - 2013

In this paper, we explore employers' decisions regarding the employment of legal and illegal immigrants in the presence of endogenous adjustment cost, minimum wages and an enforcement budget. We show that increasing the employment of legal foreign workers will increase the number of illegal...

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Mainstreaming Migration in Development Agendas : Assessment of South Asian Countries

Wickramasekara, Piyasiri - 2015

There has been increased emphasis on the linkages between international migration and development at international, regional and national levels in the past two decades. This recognition of migration as a developmental tool has generated calls for mainstreaming migration in development with some...

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Digital labour platforms and migrant workers: Analysing migrants' working conditions and (over)representation in platform work in Europe

Zwysen, Wouter; Piasna, Agnieszka - 2024

world of work are the subject of much debate. Although data are scarce, there is a general consensus that migrants are … overrepresented in this type of work. Platforms may well provide migrants with work opportunities, especially shortly after arrival … which platforms rely on migrants and create the conditions for exploitation compared to other workers is an important …

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Immigrant concentration in schools: Consequences for native and migrant students

Schneeweis, Nicole - 2013

In this paper, I study the impact of immigrant concentration in primary schools on educational outcomes of native and migrant students in a major Austrian city between 1980-2001. The outcome measures of interest are track attendance after primary education and grade repetition. Using variation...

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The long-term integration of European refugees: Swedish experiences after the Yugoslav wars

Åslund, Olof; Liljeberg, Linus; Roman, Sara - 2023

We study the short- and long-term economic and social integration of European war refugees. The population under study left former Yugoslavia for Sweden in the early 1990s. In the first years, there were significant human capital investments in language training, adult education, and active...

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The long-term integration of refugee children: Swedish experiences after the Yugoslav Wars

Åslund, Olof; Liljeberg, Linus; Roman, Sara - 2023

We study the economic and social integration of refugee children. The analysis follows war refugees arriving from former Yugoslavia to Sweden in the early 1990s for up to 25 years. We find strong educational and economic integration, although differing by age at migration and gender. By...

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Ethnic goods and immigrant assimilation

Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2014

Some immigrants try to keep their ethnicity hidden while others become ever deeply more mired in their home culture. We argue that among immigrants this struggle manifests itself in the ethnic goods they choose to consume. Different types of ethnic goods have vastly different effects on...

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Ethnic goods and immigrant assimilation

Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2015

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Children use of emergency care: Differences between natives and migrants in Italy

Cottini, Elena; Lucifora, Claudio; Turati, Gilberto; … - 2020

In this paper we study the differences between natives and migrants in the appropriate use of emergency care. We focus …. Consistently with the literature, our findings show that migrants' children are characterized both by a higher probability to use … driving these results. We find that linguistic and cultural distance between natives and migrants explain the higher use of …

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The making of a lost generation: Child labor among Syrian refugees in Turkey

Dayıoğlu, Meltem; Kirdar, Murat G.; Koç, İsmet - 2021

Millions of children are forcibly displaced around the world, making child labor a serious risk. However, little is known about this topic due to the difficulty of finding representative datasets for this population and information on child labor. In this study, we use a representative dataset...

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