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Return migrants and the wage premium: does the legal status of migrants matter?
El-Mallakh, Nelly; Wahba, Jackline - 2021
This paper examines the impact of the legal status of overseas migrants on their wages upon return to the home country …. Using unique data from Egypt, which allows us to distinguish between return migrants according to their type of … international migration, documented versus undocumented, we examine the impact of the illegal status on wages upon return. Relying …
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Return migrants and the wage premium : does the legal status of migrants matter?
El-Mallakh, Nelly; Wahba, Jackline - In: Journal of population economics : international … 35 (2022) 4, pp. 1631-1685
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Return Migrants and the Wage Premium : Does the Legal Status of Migrants Matter?
El-Mallakh, Nelly; Wahba, Jackline - 2022
This paper examines the impact of the legal status of overseas migrants on their wages upon return to the home country …. Using unique data from Egypt, which allows us to distinguish between return migrants according to their type of … international migration, documented versus undocumented, we examine the impact of the illegal status on wages upon return. Relying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014088158
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Young FSU migrants in Germany : educational attainment and early labor market outcomes
Flake, Regina - 2013
This study analyzes the educational attainment and early labor market outcomes of young migrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational attainments than natives, and that within the group of...
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Labor market transparency
Wadensjö, Eskil - 2013
The labor market differs from other markets in many respects. Most important is that those who supply labor also have to deliver it in person. It means firstly that the work environment and organization of work are important for those who deliver labor, since they are in the work place....
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The returns to occupational foreign language use : evidence from Germany
Heidland, Tobias - 2013
This paper analyses the wage premia associated with workers' occupational use of foreign languages in Germany. After eliminating time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity and other confounding factors, sizable returns of about 10 percent to applying fluent English skills are found. Returns to...
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Return international migration and geographical inequality : the case of Egypt
McCormick, Barry; Wahba, Jackline - 2004
This paper explores entrepreneurship amongst return migrants, how their business locations and characteristics differ from other businesses, and the implications for rural-urban inequality. First, we examine, amongst returnees, the determinants of investment in a project/enterprise. Second, we...
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Return migration and entrepreneurial success : an empirical analysis for Egypt
Bensassi, Sami; Jabbour, Liza - 2017
This paper explores the effect of return migration on the performance of Egyptian household firms. A growing body of evidence suggests that return migrants are more likely to become and remain entrepreneurs (Marchetta, 2012; Wahba and Zenou, 2012). The length of the miration spell, the experience...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012115194
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Self-selection patterns among return migrants : Mexico 1990-2010
Campos Vázquez, Raymundo M.; Lara, Jaime - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-18
the selection patterns, we nonparametrically estimate the counterfactual wages that the return migrants would have … that the wages of return migrants are larger than those that the migrants would have obtained had they not migrated. …
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Estimating immigrant earnings profiles when migrations are temporary
Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2016
The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many - if not most - migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...
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