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How immigration reduced social capital in the US : 2005-2011

Freire, Tiago; Li, Xiaoye - 2013

Putnam (1995)'s seminal work was one of the first to describe the decline of social capital in the US after the 1960s, a period that saw a large increase in the flow of immigrants into the US. Using the Volunteer Supplement of the September Sample of the Current Population Survey (CPS) between...

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Maids and school teachers : low skill migration and high skill labor supply

Freire, Tiago - 2010

Over the 40 years the pattern of migration has changed significantly with an increase in the share of female migrants … close substitute for household work. This paper analyzes how low skill rural-urban migration in Brazil from 1986 to 2000 … historical patterns of migrations, we are able to build an exogenous migration shock by skill to cities. Using this as an …

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Downward drifting sticky floors? : evidence on the development of wage inequality among foreigners in Germany

Ludsteck, Johannes; Lehmer, Florian - 2013 - Preliminary and incomplete

We employ the German social security register data to analyze the development of wage inequality among foreigners in Germany. The data show a sharp increase of wage inequality which exceeds the size observed for natives. The decomposition methods proposed by DiNardo et al. (1996) are employed to...

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Wage assimilation of immigrants : which factors close the gap? - evidence from Germany

Lehmer, Florian; Ludsteck, Johannes - 2012

Using longitudinal employment register data this study analyzes the development of outcomes of male foreign workers from all important sending countries across time. Cohort analyses on persons entering the German labour market between 1995 and 2000 show significant differences in the...

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Immigrant population in Barcelona : residential characteristics and use of public space

Gutiérrez Valdivia, Blanca; Ciocoletto, Adriana; … - 2010

The arrival of numerous immigrant populations in the last decade is causing deep changes in the physical and social morphology of the Spanish cities. This population locates in specific areas of our cities and has distinct settlement patterns from those of the native population. Likewise, the...

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The immigrant wage gap in Germany : are East Europeans worse off?

Lehmer, Florian; Ludsteck, Johannes - 2010

This study compares the outcomes of male foreign workers from different East and West European countries who entered the German labour market between 1995 and 2000, with those of male German workers. We find that the immigrant-native wage gap differs significantly between nationalities: the...

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Skill wage gap in Brazil : 1980 - 2000

Freire, Tiago - 2011

It is generally accepted that migration will lead to an increase in income. However the question is how will income be … international migration in developed countries. To the best of our knowledge this is the rst study to look at the impact of rural …-urban migration on city wages. Our results contribute to the evaluation of regional policies, as recent research has found that …

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