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Conditional cash transfers for women and spousal violence : evidence of the long-term relationship from the Oportunidades program in Rural Mexico

Bobonis, Gustavo J.; Castro, Roberto; Morales, Juan S. - 2015

This paper provides evidence of the long-term relationship between male-to-female spousal violence and the Oportunidades conditional cash transfer program. It uses data from three nationally representative surveys that include detailed information on the prevalence of spousal abuse and threats...

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Family change in Latin America : schooling and labor market implications for children and women

Esteve, Albert; Castro Torres, Andrés Felipe; Becca, … - 2023

This chapter provides an account of the major family transformations that occurred in recent decades across Latin American and Caribbean countries and examines the implications of such transformations for childrens school attendance and progress and womens labor force participation. Latin...

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Immigration and careers of European workers : effects and the role of policies

Cattaneo, Cristina; Fiorio, Carlo V.; Peri, Giovanni - 2014

In this paper we analyze the response of career, employment and wage of native Europeans to immigration. We then ask … flexible labor markets in a country are a key factor to have employment upgrading in response to immigration. … labor market. We find no evidence of an increased likelihood of non-employment or geographical mobility. We find that more …

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Citizenship and the economic assimilation of Canadian immigrants

Zanoni López, Wladimir; He, Ailin - 2021

In this paper, we examine whether acquiring citizenship improves the economic assimilation of Canadian migrants. We took advantage of a natural experiment made possible through changes in the Canadian Citizenship Act of 2014, which extended the physical presence requirement for citizenship from...

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South-South migration and female labor supply in the Dominican Republic

Hiller, Tatiana; Rodríguez Chatruc, Marisol - 2020

We study the effects of female immigration on the labor supply of Dominican-born women of different educational levels … settlements together with time variation in female immigration inflows, we find that female immigration is associated with a …

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Family economics writ large

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2016

Powerful currents have reshaped the structure of families over the last century. There has been (i) a dramatic drop in fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv)...

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Gender, selection into employment, and the wage impact of immigration

Borjas, George J.; Edo, Anthony - 2021

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The impact of immigration on the employment dynamics of European regions

Edo, Anthony; Özgüzel, Cem - 2023

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Employment effects of offshoring, technological change and migration in a group of Western European economies : impact on different occupations

Landesmann, Michael; Leitner, Sandra M. - 2023

occupationspecific effects: offshoring seems to have beneficial employment effects for native craft workers in this set of economies … the exception of manual workers), while robotisation in manufacturing showed strongly negative impacts on the employment … for productivity and demand effects - and this is mostly accounted for by immigration from low- to medium-income source …

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What happens to the careers of European workers when immigrants "take their jobs"?

Cattaneo, Cristina; Fiorio, Carlo V.; Peri, Giovanni - 2014

effect of the inflows of immigrants on their career, employment and wages. We use the 1991 distribution of immigrants by …

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