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This chapter explores immigrant labor market adjustment by first describing methodological and theoretical considerations central to the analysis of earnings growth and occupational mobility. When no restrictions are placed on entry earnings or earnings growth, an inverse relationship between...
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employment and wage of natives. I use a modified shift-share instrument based on past settlements to claim causality. Employment … effects were driven by increased entries to employment, while wage effects were limited to natives that were already employed …
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impact of immigration. …
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We study how job mobility, firms, and firm-ladder climbing can shape immigrants’ labor market success. Our context is the mass migration of former Soviet Union Jews to Israel during the 1990s. Once in Israel, these immigrants faced none of the legal barriers that are typically posed by...
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Is moving to the countryside a credible commitment device for couples? Weinvestigate whether lowering the arrival rate of potential alternative partners bymoving to a less populated area lowers the dissolution risk for a sample of Danishcouples. We find that of the couples who married in the...
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This study examines the interplay between job stability, wage rates, and marital instability. We use a Dynamic Selection Control model in which young men make sequential choices about work and family. Our empirical estimates derived from the model account for self-selection, simultaneity and...
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characteristics and taking into account the endogeneity of intermarriage. It is found that intermarried ethnic minorities; men and … intermarriage premium is larger for the first generation than the second generation. Across all ethnic groups, Indian men and women …
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, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter …This paper explores the impact of undocumented as opposed to documented immigration in a model featuring search … job creation effect is large for undocumented, while small and potentially negative for documented immigration. Model …
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