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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2006
There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272278
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Legal status at entry, economic performance, and self-employment proclivity: a bi-national study of immigrants
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2005
There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272326
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The European refugee crisis and the natural rate of output
Heinisch, Katja; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2016
corrections. Taking Germany as an example, we find that the average medium-term potential growth rate is lower if the migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011561651
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The impact of refugee crises on host labor markets : the case of the Syrian refugee crisis in Turkey
Akgündüz, Yusuf Emre; Berg, Marcel van den; Hassink, … - 2015
influx in Turkey has affected food and housing prices, employment rates and internal migration patterns in regions of Turkey … limited migration out of the region, but there is a significant decline in internal migration into regions hosting refugees …. Nevertheless, the decline in internal in-migration is less than a tenth of the refugee influx, implying that there is little …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010478984
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Migration from Africa, the Middle East and European neighbouring countries to the EU : an augmented gravity modelling approach
Mara, Isilda; Landesmann, Michael - 2021
The South-North migration corridor, i.e. migration flows to the EU from Africa, the Middle East and EU neighbouring … countries in the East, have overtaken the East-West migration corridor, i.e. migration flows from Central and East European … countries to the EU15 and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA). This is likely to dominate migration flows into the EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012544891
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Employment Effects of Dispersal Policies on Refugee Immigrants, Part Ii : Empirical Evidence
Damm, Anna Piil; Rosholm, Michael - 2021
the reservation wage. Hence, restrictions on placed refugees' subsequent migration (or on their initial choice of location …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319639
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Shoring up economic refugees: Venezuelan migrants in the Ecuadorian labor market
Olivieri, Sergio; Ortega, Francesc; Rivadeneira, Ana; … - 2020
Ecuador has become the third largest receiver of the 4.3 million Venezuelans that left their country in the last five years, hosting around 10% of them. Little is known about the characteristics of these migrants and their labor market outcomes. This paper fills this gap, analyzing a new large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012253741
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Heterogeneous displacement effects of migrant labor supply : quasi-experimental evidence from Germany
Scharfbillig, Mario; Weißler, Marco - 2019
We provide estimates of the effect of migrant labor supply on resident employment. We exploit variation in the number of asylum seekers eligible to the suspension of a major hiring restriction implemented in a subset of German counties. Our difference-in-difference design allows us to provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052219
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Living with the neighbors : the effect of Venezuelan forced migration on wages in Colombia
Peñaloza Pacheco, Leonardo - 2019
The aim of this paper is to estimate the causal effect of the migration of Venezuelans to Colombia on the Colombian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029807
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Mapping experiences and research about unaccompanied refugee minors in Sweden and other countries
Çelikaksoy, Aycan; Wadensjö, Eskil - 2016
Many unaccompanied children have applied for asylum during the last few years, especially in 2015. These children face special challenges and risk being exploited due to their age and legal status. In this paper we survey research and otherwise documented experiences regarding this group of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523168