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the Netherlands. We also take into account the potential endogeneity of the immigrants' labor supply and their out … previous literature. We distinguish between two types of migrants: labor and family migrants given their different labor market … and out-migration behavior. We find that simple models lead to biased estimates of the wage growth of immigrants …
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, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We …We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate … immigrants from that country. By hiring immigrants, a firm may access foreign knowledge and networks needed to overcome …
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I present a theory of couples' job search whereby women sort into lower-paying geographically-dispersed occupations due to expectations of future spouses' geographically-clustered occupations and (thereby) inability to relocate for work. Results confirm men segregate into...
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workers and (ii) an increase in the labor market participation rate of migrants. Per assumption, natives and migrants solely … inflow of migrant workers. More interesting, though, it is shown that a larger share of migrants in the workforce increases …
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We analyze four methods to measure unexplained gaps in mean outcomes: three decompositions based on the seminal work of Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973) and an approach involving a seemingly naive regression that includes a group indicator variable. Our analysis yields two principal findings. We...
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This paper explores the theoretical issues and the empirical literature regarding the selectivity of migrants. Although … theoretical analysis indicates a tendency toward the favorable self-selection (supply) of migrants for labor market success. The … be expected to be less intense for non-economic migrants, such as refugees, tied movers and ideological migrants, and for …
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We analyze four methods to measure unexplained gaps in mean outcomes: three decompositions based on the seminal work of Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973) and an approach involving a seemingly naïve regression that includes a group indicator variable. Our analysis yields two principal findings....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159930
In this empirical paper we assess how labour market transitions and out- and repeated migration of immigrants are … benefits, out-of-the-labour market (no benefits) and abroad. For the analysis we use data on recent labour immigrants to The … Netherlands, which implies that all migrants are (self)-employed at the time of arrival. We find that many migrants leave the …
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We estimate the impact of the income earned in the host country on return migration of labor migrants from developing … the income earned. Our analysis is based on administrative panel data of recent labor immigrants from developing countries … to the Netherlands. The empirical results show that intensities of return migration are U-shaped with respect to migrants …
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immigrants in Germany. Applying panel analysis with a large set of fixed effects and controls, we isolate the association between … independently of their choice allows a causal interpretation of our estimates. We find that immigrants initially located in places …
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