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The legacies of armed conflict : insights from stayees and returning forced migrants
Ruiz, Isabel; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - 2022
How does conflict, displacement, and return shape trust, reconciliation, and community engagement? And what is the relative impact of exposure to violence on these indicators? In this paper we explore these questions by focusing on the legacies of armed conflict and the differences between those...
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Immigrant labor and work-family decisions of native-born women : as immigration lowers childcare and housework costs, nativie-born women alter their work and fertility decisions
Furtado, Delia - 2015
Many countries are reviewing immigration policy, focusing on wage and employment effects for workers whose jobs may be threatened by immigration. Less attention is given to effects on prices of goods and services. The effect on childcare prices is particularly relevant to policies for dealing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430557
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Can immigrants help women "have it all"? : immigrant labor and women's joint fertility and labor supply decisions
Furtado, Delia - 2014
This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high skilled US-born women in cities that have experienced larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434604
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Fertility responses of high-skilled native women to immigrant inflows
Furtado, Delia - 2014
While there is debate regarding the magnitude of the impact, immigrant inflows are generally understood to depress wages and increase employment in immigrant-intensive sectors. In light of the over-representation of the foreign-born in the childcare industry, this paper examines whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434634
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Can immigrants help women "have it all"? : immigrant labor and women's joint fertility and labor supply decisions
Furtado, Delia - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-19
This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high-skilled US-born women in cities that have experienced larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404191
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Fertility Responses of High-Skilled Native Women to Immigrant Inflows
Furtado, Delia - 2014
While there is debate regarding the magnitude of the impact, immigrant inflows are generally understood to depress wages and increase employment in immigrant-intensive sectors. In light of the over-representation of the foreign-born in the childcare industry, this paper examines whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044402
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Parental migration, investment in children, and children's non-cognitive development : evidence from rural China
Jiang, Hanchen; Yang, Xi - 2019
the effect of parental migration on children's educational outcomes and cognitive achievements, this study focuses on how … parental migration affects children's non-cognitive development. We use longitudinal data of children in rural China and adopt … labor market conditions in destination provinces as instrumental variables for parental endogenous migration choice. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149247
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An empirical study on the migration among young skilled and creative people
Suciu, Marta-Christina; Florea, Cristina Andreea - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 19 (2017) 46, pp. 727-741
migration phenomenon had been amplified and there is an increased young people migration from emergent countries to the innovat … contribute to the amplified migration among youths. We have also highlighted the motivational elements for returning to homeland …
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The effects of gentrification on the well-being and opportunity of original resident adults and children
Brummet, Quentin; Reed, Davin - 2019
of outcomes for original resident adults and children. Gentrification modestly increases out-migration, though movers are … not made observably worse off and neighborhood change is driven primarily by changes to in-migration. At the same time … increase the opportunity benefits we find, reduce out-migration pressure, and promote long-term affordability …
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Right-wing extremism and the well-being of immigrants
Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2009
This study analyzes the effects of right-wing extremism on the well-being of immigrants based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1984 to 2006 merged with state-level information on election outcomes. The results show that the life satisfaction of immigrants is...
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