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Human capital investment under exit options : evidence from a natural quasi-experiment
Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A. - 2019
Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...
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Data sources on migrants' labour market and education integration in Austria
Huber, Peter; Fink, Marian; Horvath, Gerard Thomas - 2020
As part of a larger research project, we survey existing data sets and research results on immigrants' integration success in Austria focusing on educational and labour market outcomes. We consider different registers as well as survey data available to researchers on a regular basis and compare...
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Migration, transfers and child labor
Dimova, Ralitza; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2015
We examine agricultural child labor in the context of emigration, transfers, and the ability to hire outside labor. We start by developing a theoretical background based on Basu and Van, (1998), Basu, (1999, 2000) and Epstein and Kahana (2008) and show how hiring labor from outside the household...
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Migrating for children's better future : intergenerational mobility of internal migrants' children in Indonesia
Fatimah, Alfariany Milati; Kofol, Chiara - 2019
Internal migration dominates population mobility in Indonesia; according to the 2010 census, there were almost 30 … million permanent migrants, around 12.5 percent of the population. The effects of this internal migration on the second … generation continue to be under-explored. This paper investigates the long-term impact of parents' migration on their children …
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Migration, unemployment and trade
Hazari, Bharat R.; Sgro, Pasquale M. - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001561052
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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....
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Mexican migration to the United States : underlying economic factors and possible scenarios for future flows
Chiquiar, Daniel; Salcedo, Alejandrina - 2013
In this paper we examine some economic factors that have influenced migration flows from Mexico to the United States … the behavior of migration to changes in sectoral growth in the US, as well as to a heterogeneous participation of Mexican … workers in employment by sector. To forecast future migration flows, we propose and estimate a model of demand for Mexican …
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Economic influences on child migration decisions: evidence from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh
Edmonds, Eric V.; Salinger, Philip - In: Indian Growth and Development Review 1 (2008) 1, pp. 32-56
/methodology/approach – The economic components of the answer to this question are considered by examining the correlates of out-migration for … classical view of migration: children on average appear to migrate out of competitive, rural child labor markets for net … financial gain. Practical implications – The costs of migration are important. Children are less likely to migrate from more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005081144
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Does foreign language proficiency foster migration of young individuals within the European Union?
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Kuehn, Zoë - 2014
, we test whether and how much language proficiency determines migration flows across Europe. The European Union with …
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Secondary education and international labor mobility : evidence from the natural experiment in the Philippines
Sakai, Yoko; Masuda, Kazuya - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1/10, pp. 1-22
known to affect regional labor mobility within a country, evidence of a relationship between schooling and international …
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