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decades, it is important to know both how migrants integrate into the host countries and how immigration affects natives …-based tracking of children into different school types impede migrant integration. Chapters 4 and 5 cover the effect of immigration … on the host societies by showing that growing up in high immigration area increases intergenerational income mobility …
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I examine the effect of English language proficiency on the occupational choices of childhood immigrants into the United States. In particular, I focus on the annual earnings and skills composition associated with immigrants' chosen occupations. Following Bleakley and Chin (2004; 2010), I use an...
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Building on recent analyses that find a sizeable, overall gender wage gap in Azerbaijan's workforce, this paper uses … data on young workers in their early years in the labor market to understand how gender wage gaps evolve over time, if at … entrants begin with little or no gender differences in earnings, but a wage gap gradually emerges over time closer to the …
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The shrinking number of workers due to smaller young cohorts entering the labour market and large-scale outward migration are undermining Bulgaria’s growth prospects, the sustainability of its social institutions and society more widely. Bulgaria needs to provide more support for families and...
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What role has affirmative action played in the growth of minority and female employment in U.S. firms? This paper analyzes this issue by comparing the employment of minorities and women at firms holding federal contracts and therefore mandated to implement affirmative action, and at...
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This chapter summarizes recent research in economics that investigates differentials by race and gender in the labor … market. We start with a statistical overview of the trends in labor market outcomes by race, gender and Hispanic origin …. The remainder of the chapter reviews the evidence on race and gender gaps, particularly wage gaps. Section 5 reviews …
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We analyze 6,400 letters of recommendation for more than 2,200 economics and finance Ph.D. graduates from 2018 to 2021. Letter text varies significantly by field of interest, with significantly less positive and shorter letters for Macroeconomics and Finance candidates. Letters for female and...
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The role of ethnic immigrant networks in facilitating international trade is a well-established phenomenon in the literature. However, it is less clear whether this relationship extends to illegal trade and unauthorized immigrants. In this paper, we tackle this question by focusing on the case...
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Immigration is one of the most important policy debates in Western countries. However, one aspect of the debate is … often mischaracterized by accusations that higher levels of immigration lead to higher levels of crime. The evidence, based … on empirical studies of many countries, indicates that there is no simple link between immigration and crime, but …
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Using a recent survey of immigrants to France, we provide a detailed analysis of the educational attainment and labor market performance of various sub-population groups in France. Our results indicate that immigrants to France are less educated than the native born and that these differences...
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