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For immigrants, intermarriage with natives is assumed to have an assimilating role due to the enhancement of local …; intermarriage to natives and intra-marriage with immigrants from home countries as well as or other (non-Swedish) countries. A … intermarriage (intra-marriage) on annual income from any remaining positive selection effects into respective marriage type. Results …
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Many countries impose restrictions on some immigrants' job mobility, likely reducing their wages. We quantify such effects for Mexican-born men in the U.S. by recognizing that immigrants who marry U.S. natives receive expedited “green cards” (Permanent Residency). Robust IV estimates...
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Immigration is an important problem in many societies, and it has wide-ranging effects on the educational systems of … model of family immigration in a framework where school quality and student outcomes are determined endogenously. This … selection. Also, we can study the effect of immigration on the school system and how school quality may self …
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This paper analyses occupational matching of immigrants from over seventy countries of origin to 22 European countries. Using European Social Survey for the years 2002–2009, we show that immigrants are more likely to be both under- and overeducated than the native born for the jobs that they...
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positive association. However, in contrast to those who completed their education pre-immigration, immigrants who arrived at a …
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positive association. However, in contrast to those who completed their education pre-immigration, immigrants who arrived at a …
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example, failure to control for endogeneity of immigration itself leads to an underestimate of its employment impact. …Immigration is a phenomenon of growing significance in many countries. Increasing social tensions are leading to … countries has been exceeded and social cohesion threatened. There is also in public discourse a common perception of immigration …
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along with employment outcomes are explored. The study uses 19 annual cross-sections of the Survey of Consumer Finances … conditions at the time of labour market entry have adverse impacts on both labour force participation and employment. With the …
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along with employment outcomes are explored. The study uses 19 annual cross-sections of the Survey of Consumer Finances … conditions at the time of labour market entry have adverse impacts on both labour force participation and employment. With the …
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We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the … period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and …
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