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Return migrants and the wage premium: does the legal status of migrants matter?
El-Mallakh, Nelly; Wahba, Jackline - 2021
This paper examines the impact of the legal status of overseas migrants on their wages upon return to the home country …. Using unique data from Egypt, which allows us to distinguish between return migrants according to their type of … international migration, documented versus undocumented, we examine the impact of the illegal status on wages upon return. Relying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582329
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Return migrants and the wage premium : does the legal status of migrants matter?
El-Mallakh, Nelly; Wahba, Jackline - In: Journal of population economics : international … 35 (2022) 4, pp. 1631-1685
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013441826
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Return Migrants and the Wage Premium : Does the Legal Status of Migrants Matter?
El-Mallakh, Nelly; Wahba, Jackline - 2022
This paper examines the impact of the legal status of overseas migrants on their wages upon return to the home country …. Using unique data from Egypt, which allows us to distinguish between return migrants according to their type of … international migration, documented versus undocumented, we examine the impact of the illegal status on wages upon return. Relying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014088158
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Young FSU migrants in Germany : educational attainment and early labor market outcomes
Flake, Regina - 2013
This study analyzes the educational attainment and early labor market outcomes of young migrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational attainments than natives, and that within the group of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771160
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The returns to occupational foreign language use : evidence from Germany
Heidland, Tobias - 2013
This paper analyses the wage premia associated with workers' occupational use of foreign languages in Germany. After eliminating time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity and other confounding factors, sizable returns of about 10 percent to applying fluent English skills are found. Returns to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010192306
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Self-selection patterns among return migrants : Mexico 1990-2010
Campos Vázquez, Raymundo M.; Lara, Jaime - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-18
the selection patterns, we nonparametrically estimate the counterfactual wages that the return migrants would have … that the wages of return migrants are larger than those that the migrants would have obtained had they not migrated. …
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Estimating immigrant earnings profiles when migrations are temporary
Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2016
The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many - if not most - migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011481390
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Post-Enlargement Return Migrants' Earnings Premium : Evidence from Latvia
Hazans, Mihails - 2008
The paper exploits a recent survey of over ten thousand economically active residents of Latvia; about 5% of respondents have worked abroad over the last three years, while 12% have family members with such experience. Post-enlargement labor migration from Latvia has been predominantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014214560
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The Dynamics of Return Migration, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wage Assimilation
Adda, Jerome; Dustmann, Christian; Goerlach, Joseph-Simon - 2022
profiles. Our study also explains the willingness of immigrants to accept jobs at wages that seem unacceptable to natives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014088604
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The Dynamics of Return Migration, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wage Assimilation
Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Goerlach, Joseph-Simon - 2021
profiles. Our study also explains the willingness of immigrants to accept jobs at wages that seem unacceptable to natives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013229696