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Taking advantage of the panel structure of the data, the impact of intermarriage on labor market productivity as measured by earnings is examined. Contrarily to previous studies which rely on instrumental variable techniques, selection issues are addressed within a fixed effects framework. The...
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The labor market "quality" of immigrants is a subject of debate among immigration researchers, and a major public policy concern. However, traditional methods of measuring human capital are particularly difficult to apply to recently arrived immigrants. Many factors that have a negative effect...
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In this paper the hypothesis that partnerships between immigrants and natives are less specialized in the sense that spouses provide similar working hours per weekday than those between immigrants is tested. The empirical analysis relies on panel data using a two-limit random effects tobit...
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Taking advantage of the panel structure of the data, the impact of intermarriage on labor market productivity as measured by earnings is examined. Contrarily to previous studies which rely on instrumental variable techniques, selection issues are addressed within a fixed effects framework. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285764
Spouse's relative labor supply and the degree of specialization in intermarriage might differ from that in immigrant and native marriage for several reasons. Intermarried couples may specialize less due to smaller comparative advantages resulting from positive assortative mating by education,...
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Taking advantage of the panel structure of the data, the impact of intermarriage on labor market productivity as measured by earnings is examined. Contrarily to previous studies which rely on instrumental variable techniques, selection issues are addressed within a fixed effects framework. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826431
whether migration contribute to change the labor market status of immigrants (like in job, in education, unemployed or outside … immigrated for the first time. To measure the specific effects of migration on change of labor market status, we have compared …. Domestic migration has to a certain extent been beneficial for immigrants to obtain employment or to carry out an education …
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polio and the vaccine against it, (2) experiencing forced migration, studied through the case of Yugoslavian refugees in ….For the case of forced migration, the results show that asylum-seeking children who arrived in Sweden as a consequence of the …
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