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higher among foreign-born workers, reflecting weaker labor market attachment and high risk of large negative shocks for low-income … generosity and usage of benefit programs declined over time, we find stronger earnings growth among low-income workers …
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among foreign‐born workers, reflecting weaker labor market attachment and high risk of large negative shocks for low‐income … the generosity and usage of benefit programs declined over time, we find stronger earnings growth among low‐income workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014306326
Recent immigrants tend to locate in ethnic enclaves within metropolitan areas. The economic consequence of living in such enclaves is still an unresolved issue. We use an immigrant policy initiative in Sweden, when government authorities distributed refugee immigrants across locales in a way...
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Recent immigrants tend to locate in ethnic enclaves within metropolitan areas. The economic consequence of living in such enclaves is still an unresolved issue. We use an immigrant policy initiative in Sweden, when government authorities distributed refugee immigrants across locales in a way...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571932
This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to analyze the labor market experience of high-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high-skilled occupations than natives, but the gap between the two...
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Research on happiness casts doubt on the notion that increases in income generally bring greater happiness. This … as a means of increasing one’s income might be no more effective in raising happiness than other means of increasing one …’s income. This implication is counterintuitive: it suggests that migrants are mistaken in believing that economic migration is …
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Utilizing data from the 1967-2009 years of the March Current Population Surveys, we examine two important resources for children's well-being: time and money. We document trends in parental employment, from the perspective of children, and show what underlies these trends. We find that increases...
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Survey of Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) by the Bank of Italy. The empirical study is performed by cross-section probit … statistically significant effects of both children's and parents' income on the departure probability. We interpret this positive … parents' income effect as a signal for inter-household transfers. Finally, we distinguish by gender and find that while the …
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not work at all, time spent with children, and child-related expenditures, we find that income risk impacts skill … childhood is hard--as available evidence suggests--uninsurable income risk can negatively impact the labor market prospects of …
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