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of work − 50 or more weekly hours and document that immigrants are less likely than natives to work long hours … to natives, immigrants are less likely to supply long work weeks if they work in occupations where the immigrant …-native earnings differential is big. Second, immigrants are also less likely to supply long work weeks when they work in occupations …
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This paper examines the post-migration investments in schooling and job search of immigrant families using new longitudinal data for Australia. Higher education levels at time of arrival are associated with a greater probability of enrolling in school after migration. In households where the...
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the endogenous location of immigrants, we find that low-skilled immigration to the United States has contributed to …
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This paper analyses the role of social capital on immigrants' labour market outcomes. We use the "principal component …
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geographical mobility of immigrants in Spain and, in particular, if the expected wage gain exerts a positive influence on the …
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It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society … immigrants’ inter-ethnic contact networks and social activities, we are able to identify the causal effect of ethnic … concentration on social integration. The exogenous placement of immigrants “switches off” observable and unobservable differences in …
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Using matched employer-employee data, we analyse the impact of immigrants on natives' employment in Portugal. Using … different model specifications, we show that the natives and immigrants are 'complements' at most occupation levels, in the … the skills spectrum are not affected by the presence of immigrants as well. …
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the period 1995-2001, in order to identify the effect of inflows of immigrants on their career, employment, location and … wage. We use the 1991 distribution of immigrants by nationality across European labor markets to construct an imputed … their occupation to one associated with higher skills and better pay, when a larger number of immigrants enter their labor …
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This paper examines the role of ethnic networks in disability program take-up among workingage immigrants in the United … States. We find that even when controlling for country of origin and area of residence fixed effects, immigrants residing …
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