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Barriers to immigrant assimilation evidence on grading bias in Ecuadorian high schools
Rangel, Marcos A.; Marotta, Luana; Van der Werf, Cynthia; … - 2024
We investigate the assimilation of immigrant youth in Ecuador. Focusing on formal schooling and employing administrative data from high schools, we document subtle ways by which assessment biases against students with an immigrant background play a significant role in this assimilation process....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014529930
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Understanding the role of immigrants' legal status : evidence from policy experiments
Fasani, Francesco - 2014
Programs aimed at reducing the presence of unauthorised immigrants are often at the core of the migration policy debate in host countries. In recent years, a growing body of empirical literature has attempted to understand the effect of lacking legal status on immigrants' outcomes and behaviour....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472833
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Illegal migration and consumption behavior of immigrant households
Dustmann, Christian; Fasani, Francesco; Speciale, Biagio - 2015
We analyze the effect of immigrants' legal status on their consumption behavior using unique survey data that samples both documented and undocumented immigrants. To address the problem of sorting into legal status, we propose two alternative identification strategies as exogenous source of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405309
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Employment gaps between refugees, migrants and natives : evidence from Austrian Register based labour market data
Jestl, Stefan; Landesmann, Michael; Leitner, Sebastian; … - 2019
-humanitarian migrants, European third country immigrants and natives. We draw on a register based panel dataset covering the complete labour … unconditional gap between refugees and natives declines to 30 percentage points, similar to the one of non-humanitarian migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012153921
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Nudging the agents : does it reduce discrimination against migrants in the house rental market?
Zanoni López, Wladimir; Díaz, Lina; Díaz, Emily; … - 2023
This study examines the impact of a behavioral intervention on reducing discrimination against Venezuelan migrants in … migrants represent the second-largest migratory group globally, with over seven million individuals seeking refuge primarily in … artifactual field experiment involved providing information to REAs that highlighted the extra efforts Venezuelan migrants must …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014546318
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Immigration and offshoring : two forces of globalisation and their impact on employment and the bargaining power of occupational groups
Landesmann, Michael; Leitner, Sandra M. - 2020
impact of immigration and different measures of offshoring on the labour demand and demand elasticities of native workers in … important and occupation-specific direct and indirect effects of immigration and offshoring. Both offshoring - particularly … services offshoring - and immigration have negative direct employment effects on all occupations, but native clerks and manual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012167255
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The size, socio-economic composition and fiscal implications of the irregular immigration in Spain
Gálvez-Iniesta, Ismael - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012310713
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Wage differences between immigrants and natives in Austria : the role of literacy skills
Christl, Michael; Köppl-Turyna, Monika; Gnan, Phillipp - 2017
This paper analyzes wage differences between natives and immigrants in Austria. First, we show that for both groups, literacy skills are an important determinant of the hourly wage. In the second step, we show that differences in proficiency with respect to literacy can explain more than three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011747965
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Medium and long run economic assimilation of Venezuelan migrants to Peru
Torres, Javier; Beverinotti, Javier; … - 2024
In a span of six years, the proportion of Venezuelans in Perú has surged nearly fourfold, rising from virtually zero to over 4% of the population. This study delves into the dynamics of medium- and long-term labor market integration in Perú, combining data from the Venezuelan Population...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014537370
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Immigration and national wages : clarifying the theory and the empirics
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, Giovanni - 2008
This paper estimates the effects of immigration on wages of native workers at the national U.S. level. Following Borjas … account for the short run and long run adjustment of capital in response to immigration. Using our estimates and Census data … we find that immigration (1990-2006) had small negative effects in the short run on native workers with no high school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008796285