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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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women from the German Socio-Economic Panel and we merge them with the data on the share of female immigrants and other … regional labour market characteristics. We find that an increase of the share of female immigrants at the local level induces …
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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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Many countries are reviewing immigration policy, focusing on wage and employment effects for workers whose jobs may be threatened by immigration. Less attention is given to effects on prices of goods and services. The effect on childcare prices is particularly relevant to policies for dealing...
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Der Anteil der Personen mit Migrationshintergrund ist in Berlin nicht höher als in vergleichbaren deutschen Städten. Wegen der schlechten Wirtschaftsentwicklung und der allgemein hohen Unterbeschäftigung in Berlin treten die mit Migration verbundenen ökonomischen und sozialen Phänomene hier...
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continuum of tasks in each sector and we augment it to include immigrants with heterogeneous productivity in tasks. We use this … pushed natives toward more communication-intensive tasks while it has pushed immigrants away from them. …
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immigrants if employers perceive them as less skilled than native-born workers - and vice versa. Studies indicate that a higher … minimum wage does not hurt immigrants, but there is no consensus on whether immigrants benefit at the expense of natives …. Studies also reach disparate conclusions on whether higher minimum wages attract or repel immigrants. …
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effect of the inflows of immigrants on their career, employment and wages. We use the 1991 distribution of immigrants by … associated with higher skills and status when a larger number of immigrants enter their labor market. As a consequence of this …
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We evaluate the individual employment effects of four types of short-term training for immigrants and natives in the … training increase the employment chances of immigrants, whereas the other two are rather ineffective. Effect differences … between immigrants and natives predominantly result from socio-demographic composition. …
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. Focusing on low-skilled immigrants, this paper empirically examines the effect of minimum wages on location decisions within …
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