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Using 1995 - 2006 Current Population Survey and 1970 - 2000 Census data, we study the intergenerational transmission of fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women's fertility and labor supply are significantly...
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on the employment probability at the second date. In our study, the probability of naturalization between two census … effect of naturalization on the individual employment probability by estimating a univariate probit model. To control for the … immigrants who have a low probability of employment in the host country. …
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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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The number of immigrants across the world has doubled since 1980. The estimates of the impact of immigration on wages … and employment in host countries are quantitatively small but vary widely. We use meta-regression analysis to show how the … for endogeneity of immigrant settlement. On average, the impact on employment of the native born is smaller than on wages …
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differences between migrants and natives are larger in the German region. Building on this, the paper begins with a comparison of … show returns to factors of wage-earning migrants are lower in the German region for a preponderant majority of migrant … approach confirm that host society culture is one of the determinants of wage discrimination endured by migrants. …
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employment convergence between foreign-born and native-born in the European Union (EU), by gender and broad region of origin …
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This paper studies the effects of mass immigration from the former USSR to Israel in the 1990s on the employment of the … native employment and the relative price of domestic goods – is estimated, finding negative effects of immigration on native … employment a year after arrival. The delay in the effect is attributed to a positive impact of immigration on the excess demand …
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. Specifically, we analyse whether individual native workers are replaced or displaced by the employment of immigrants within the …
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Literature on the immigrant labour market mismatch has not explored the signal provided by the quality of home country work experience, particularly that of education-occupation mismatch prior to migration.We show that type of work experience in the home country plays a significant role in...
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