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Relative labor supply in intermarriage
Nottmeyer, Olga - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014), pp. 1-27
Spouse's relative labor supply and the degree of specialization in intermarriage might differ from that in immigrant …-neutral specialization index. Results indicate that for immigrants intermarriage is indeed related to less specialization, as is similar …, on the other hand, the likelihood to specialize increases with intermarriage. This might result from differences in …
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Inter-ethnic Partnerships: Key Characteristics, and What They Reveal about Successful Integration
Nottmeyer, Olga - In: Weekly Report 6 (2010) 15, pp. 112-120
Partnerships between immigrants and native-born citizens are commonly viewed as the product of successful social integration, as well as a possible driving force of economic success. Thus, immigrants living in inter-ethnic partnerships have on average a higher level of education, better...
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Female Household-Headship in Rural Bangladesh: Incidence, Determinants and Impact on Children's Schooling Shareen Joshi
Joshi, Shareen - 2004
This paper uses data from Matlab, Bangladesh to examine the characteristics of female-headed households and estimate the impact of female-headship on children's schooling. Female householdheads in Matlab fall into two broad groups: widows and married women, most of whom are wives of migrants....
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Migration and Economic Growth: a 21st Century Perspective
Moody, Cat - 2006
New Zealand there has been an implicit underlying assumption that immigration is good for economic growth, as evidenced by … the attempted use of immigration to resolve particular labour market problems. This paper uses the growth accounting … policy framework to discuss the mechanisms through which immigration can impact economic growth. It reviews the contemporary …
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Pandemic Impact on Migrants, Immigrants and Reverse Migrants in India. Implications for Immediate Policy Interventions
Pazhanisamy, R. - 2020
The present Covid -19 pandemic has taken away many millions of lives across the countries and negatively affect the lifestyles of crores of households and the migrant populations are the immediate victims of such disaster. This policy brief trace and reveals the extent of migrants population in...
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Immigration Following EU Eastern Enlargement
Sinn, Hans-Werner; Werding, Martin - In: CESifo Forum 02 (2001) 2, pp. 40-47
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Immigration and wages: new evidence from the African American Great Migration
Gardner, John - In: IZA Journal of Migration 5 (2016) 22, pp. 1-45
local and aggregate wage effect estimates has implications for our general understanding of how immigration and wages are …
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Migration and educational aspirations: Another channel of brain gain?
Böhme, Marcus H. - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-24
International migration not only enables individuals to earn higher wages but also exposes them to new environments. The norms and values experienced in destination countries can change the behavior of migrants and also of family members left behind. This paper suggests that brain gain can take...
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The dynamics of inequality change in a highly dualistic economy: Honduras, 1991-2007
Klasen, Stephan; Otter, Thomas; Villalobos, Carlos - 2012
We examine the drivers of inequality change in Honduras between 1991-2007, trying to understand why inequality increased in Honduras until 2005, while it was falling in most other Latin American countries. Using annual household surveys, we document first rising inequality between 1991-2005,...
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The dynamics of international migration: Introduction
Stark, Oded - In: International Review of Economics and Finance 28 (2013), pp. 1-2
This special issue of the International Review of Economics and Finance contributes to the received literature of the dynamics of international migration by highlighting the role of tradition in propelling migration; by admitting that the human capital formation response to the prospect of...
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