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Mexican entrepreneurship : a comparison of self-employment in Mexico and the United States
Fairlie, Robert W. (contributor);  … - 2006
Mexican Americans are only 6 percent, about half the rate among non-Latino whites. Using data from the Mexican and U ….S. population census, we show that neither industrial composition nor differences in the age and education of Mexican born … the United States, however, estimates indicate that low levels of education and the youth of Mexican immigrants residing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003375894
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Mexican Entrepreneurship : A Comparison of Self-Employment in Mexico and the United States
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015
Mexican Americans are only 6 percent, about half the rate among non-Latino whites. Using data from the Mexican and U ….S. population census, we show that neither industrial composition nor differences in the age and education of Mexican born … the United States, however, estimates indicate that low levels of education and the youth of Mexican immigrants residing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012750580
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Educational attainment of second-generation immigrants : a US-Canada comparison
Liu, Xingfei - 2014
In this paper, I analyze educational outcomes for second generation immigrants and compare them to those of natives. I use a dynamic structural model and focus on transition paths from school to work for youths in Canada and the U.S. Using data extracted from the 1997 National Longitudinal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010442310
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Native-migrant differences in risk attitudes
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - 2006
This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003289886
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Comparing Public Transfers between Immigrants and Natives : A National Transfer Accounts Approach
M., Gilbert; Navaux, Julien; Mérette, Marcel; … - 2022
In Canada, immigration constitutes the primary response to population ageing. While extensive research has covered the impact of immigration on various aspects of the labour supply, the financial aspect has received less attention. In this study, we apply the National Transfer Account (NTA)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013312292
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Kick it like Özil? : decomposing the native-migrant education gap
Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Schüller, Simone - 2012
We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to analyze the determinants of the persistent native-migrant gap. One part of the gap can be attributed to differences in socioeconomic background and another part remains unexplained....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009558937
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Does early educational tracking increase migrant-native achievement gaps? : differences-in-differences evidence across countries
Ruhose, Jens; Schwerdt, Guido - 2015
We study whether early tracking of students based on ability increases migrant-native achievement gaps. To eliminate confounding impacts of unobserved country traits, we employ a differences-in-differences strategy that exploits international variation in the age of tracking as well as student...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498389
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Analyzing educational achievement differences between second-generation immigrants : comparing Germany and German-speaking Switzerland
Kunz, Johannes - 2014
In this study, I provide evidence that the educational achievement of second-generation immigrants in German-speaking Switzerland is greater than in Germany. The impact of the first-generation immigrants' destination decision on their offspring's educational achievement seems to be much more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010410418
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Kick it like Özil? : decomposing the native-migrant education gap
Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Schüller, Simone - 2012
We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to analyze the determinants of the persistent native-migrant gap. One part of the gap can be attributed to differences in socioeconomic background and another part remains unexplained....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009681447
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Better migrants, better PISA results : findings from a natural experiment
Cattaneo, Maria Alejandra; Wolter, Stefan C. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-19
Switzerland changed its migration policy in the 1990s from a "non-qualified only" policy to one of almost free movement of labor. To analyze the impact of this policy change on the schooling outcomes of children of first-generation migrants, the paper compares the PISA results of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404072