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Does Immigration Improve Quality of Care in Nursing Homes?
Furtado, Delia - 2020
The growing healthcare needs of baby boomers require significant increases in the number or productivity of healthcare workers. This paper explores how immigrants may fill these gaps in nursing homes. First, we show that immigrant inflows are associated with reduced wages of lower skilled nurses...
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Shoring Up Economic Refugees : Venezuelan Migrants in the Ecuadorian Labor Market
Olivieri, Sergio - 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...
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The labor market effects of Venezuelan migration in Ecuador
Olivieri, Sergio; Ortega, Francesc; Rivadeneira, Ana; … - 2020
As of 2019, more than 1.2 million Venezuelans have passed through Ecuador and over 400,000 settled in, which amounts to almost 3% of Ecuador's population. This paper analyzes the location choices of Venezuelan migrants within Ecuador and the labor market consequences of these choices, using data...
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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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Shoring up economic refugees : Venezuelan migrants in the Ecuadoran labor market
Olivieri, Sergio; Ortega, Francesc; Rivadeneira, Ana; … - 2020
Ecuador became the third largest receiver of the 4.3 million Venezuelans who left their country in the last five years, hosting around 10 percent of them. Little is known about the characteristics of these migrants and their labor market outcomes. This paper fills this gap by analyzing a new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297861
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Occupational barriers and the labor market penalty from lack of legal status
Ortega, Francesc; Hsin, Amy - 2018
degree of exposure to apprehension by immigration enforcement agencies. In sum, our results strongly suggest that …
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The labour market effects of venezuelan migration in Ecuador
Olivieri, Sergio; Ortega, Francesc; Rivadeneira, Ana; … - In: The journal of development studies 58 (2022) 4, pp. 713-729
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Back to work : the unequal effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Ecuador's labor market
Olivieri, Sergio; Ortega, Francesc; Rivadeneira, Ana - 2023
Using the 2021 and 2022 HFPS for Ecuador, the paper investigates the labor market trajectories of different socio-economic groups. The analysis shows that the employment of older individuals, less-educated workers, and women fell disproportionately. However, while the recovery between 2021 and...
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The impact of skilled foreign workers on firms : an investigation of publicly traded US firms
Ghosh, Anirban; Mayda, Anna Maria; Ortega, Francesc - 2014
Many U.S. businessmen are vocally in favor of an increase in the number of H-1B visas. Is there systematic evidence that this would positively affect firms' productivity, sales, employment or profits? To address these questions we assemble a unique dataset that matches all labor condition...
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Immigration, naturalization, and the future of public education
Tanaka, Ryuichi; Farré, Lídia; Ortega, Francesc - 2014
This paper analyzes the effects of immigration on the education system of the receiving country from a political … key moments of Spain's economy and education system in year 2008, the end of a large episode of immigration. By means of … simulations we evaluate the effects of immigration on the size and quality of Spain's public education. Our main findings are as …
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