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the host countries. Through a general literature review and examination of specific immigration countries, we provide … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and … measurement challenges. While health is part of human capital, health assimilation is the mirror image of earnings assimilation …
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the host countries. Through a general literature review and examination of specific immigration countries, we provide … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and … measurement challenges. While health is part of human capital, health assimilation is the mirror image of earnings assimilation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735974
variable that predicts name Americanization. We conclude that the tradeoff between individual identity and labor market success …
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This paper investigates the causal pathways through which ethnic social networks influence individual naturalization. Using the complete-count Census of 1930, we digitize information on the exact residence of newly arrived immigrants in New York City. This allows us to define networks with a...
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Previous research on internal mobility has neglected the role of local identity contrary to studies analyzing … international migration. Examining social identity and labor market outcomes in China, the country with the largest internal … largely unchanged. Migrants with strong local identity are more likely to use local networks in job search, and to obtain jobs …
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Addressing unauthorized immigration is controversial. Countries have adopted a variety of legalization programs …
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embodied in migrants; assimilation, the degree to which migrants' productivity determinants become like natives' over time in … the host country; and congestion, the degree to which transmission and assimilation change at higher migrant stocks. On …
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Previous research has found that immigration benefits the health of working-age natives, an effect mediated through the … labor market. We use the Study of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate whether immigration also … affects the health of natives 65-80 years old. Immigration may increase the supply and lower the price of personal and …
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the long-run viability of society as a whole. One possible solution is to permit more immigration, which will both … increase the labor force and broaden the tax base. Increasing immigration has a variety of effects on the local population … attractiveness of immigration as a solution to population ageing. This paper examines immigration as a solution to the problem of …
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result in a large fall in immigration from EEA countries to the UK. …
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