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In this paper we study the impact of the international migration of unskilled workers on skill formation and the average skill level in the home country. We analyze what appears to be the least threatening scenario from the point of view of its effect on the supply of skills at home: namely,...
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In this paper we study the impact of the international migration of unskilled workers on skill formation and the average skill level in the home country. We analyze what appears to be the least threatening scenario from the point of view of its effect on the supply of skills at home: namely,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009515376
Does exposure to immigrants affect native children’s economic opportunities? Leveraging the linked U.S. censuses in the early 20th century, I study immigration’s cross-generation effect on the native-born. I examine the causal impact of childhood exposure to immigrants on natives’...
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We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to analyze the determinants of the persistent native-migrant gap. One part of the gap can be attributed to differences in socioeconomic background and another part remains unexplained....
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This study investigates the realisation of time-related positive fertility intentions using a comparative approach …. Four European countries of medium size are compared, all with rather different fertility regimes: the Netherlands and … to construct a typology of fertility intentions and outcomes, and not only to identify common patterns but also different …
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Alike most of the Western world, the Danish fertility rate declined throughout the 20th century simultaneous to … economic growth. This development, which conflicts with economic intuition, has been denoted the fertility paradox, and several … the fertility rate during the years 1982 to 2004. Several factors commonly believed to explain the variation in the …
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Simon Szreter's book Fertility, Class, and Gender in Britain, 1860-1940 argues that social and economic class fails to … explain the cross-sectional differences in marital fertility asreported in the 1911 census of England and Wales. Szreter … causes of the European fertility decline of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. For decades scholars have argued whether …
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Simon Szreter's book "Fertility, Class, and Gender in Britain, 1860-1940" argues that social and economic class fails … to explain the cross-sectional differences in marital fertility as reported in the 1911 census of England and Wales … about the causes of the European fertility decline of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. For decades scholars have …
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I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous … transfers. For the economy at large, high-fertility unskilled immigrants and a low-fertility indigenous population result in …
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