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Estimating the Impact of Immigration on Wages in Ireland
Barrett, Alan; Bergin, Adele; Kelly, Elish - 2009
We estimate the impact of immigration on the wages of natives in Ireland applying the technique proposed by Borjas … suggest that care should be exercised when applying this method as inaccurate impressions of the impact of immigration on … wages may arise. -- Immigration ; Wages ; Ireland …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003882049
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Estimating the impact of immigration on wages in Ireland
Barrett, Alan; Bergin, Adele; Kelly, Elish - 2009
We estimate the impact of immigration on the wages of natives in Ireland applying the technique proposed by Borjas … suggest that care should be exercised when applying this method as inaccurate impressions of the impact of immigration on … wages may arise. -- Immigration ; wages ; Ireland …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003902434
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Bridges or buffers? : motives behind immigrants' religiosity ; a comparative study of Europe and the United States
Garcia-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - 2013
This study reviews and evaluates the motives and incentives behind immigrants’ religiosity, focusing on the two sides of the Atlantic - Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to identify indicators for the type of incentive - whether immigrants'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010209718
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Escaping from hunger before WW1 : nutrition and living standards in Western Europe and USA in the late nineteenth century
Gazeley, Ian; Holmes, Rose; Newell, Andrew; Reynolds, Kevin - 2017
We estimate calories available to workers' households in the USA, Belgium, Britain, France and Germany in 1890/1. We … estimate that households in the USA, on average, had about five hundred daily calories per equivalent adult more than their … French and German counterparts, with Belgian and British workers closer to the USA levels. We ask if that energy bonus gave …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732355
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How do immigrants spend their time? : the process of assimilation
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2010
Using 2004-2008 data from the American Time Use Survey, we show that sharp differences between the time use of immigrants and natives become noticeable when activities are distinguished by incidence and intensity. We develop a theory of the process of assimilation – what immigrants do with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003976859
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Is religiosity of immigrants a bridge or a buffer in the process of integration? : a comparative study of Europe and the United States
García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - 2012
This study reviews and evaluates the intertwined relationship between immigration and religiosity, focusing on the two …-religion relationship, immigration policies and concepts? The main findings are the following: (a) immigrants are indeed more religious than … mainly the function of a buffer and of "balm to the soul". -- immigration ; religion ; integration ; Europe ; United States …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009533442
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Demography, capital flows and unemployment
Marchiori, Luca; Pierrard, Olivier; Sneessens, Henri R. - 2011
This paper contributes to the already vast literature on demography-induced international capital flows by examining the role of labor market imperfections and institutions. We setup a two-country overlapping generations model with search unemployment, which we calibrate on EU15 and US data....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009517868
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Immigration policy and the skills of immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States
Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2000
Census data for 1990/91 indicate that Australian and Canadian immigrants have higher levels of English fluency, education, and income (relative to natives) than do U.S. immigrants. This skill deficit for U.S. immigrants arises primarily because the United States receives a much larger share of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011561682
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Immigration policy and the skills of immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States
Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2001
Census data for 1990/91 indicate that Australian and Canadian immigrants have higher levels of English fluency, education, and income (relative to natives) than do U.S. immigrants. This skill deficit for U.S. immigrants arises primarily because the United States receives a much larger share of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403808
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Immigration policy and the skills of immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States
Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2001
Census data for 1990/91 indicate that Australian and Canadian immigrants have higher levels of English fluency, education, and income (relative to natives) than do U.S. immigrants. This skill deficit for U.S. immigrants arises primarily because the United States receives a much larger share of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001635478