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Human capital transmission and the earnings of second-generation immigrants in Sweden
Hammarstedt, Mats; Palme, Mårten - In: IZA Journal of Migration 1 (2012), pp. 1-23
We compare the earnings and the intergenerational earnings mobility of immigrants with natives in Sweden. We find an … overall convergence in average earnings between immigrants and natives across generations. This convergence hides a divergence …
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Human capital transmission and the earnings of second-generation immigrants in Sweden
Hammarstedt, Mats; Palme, Mårten - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-23
We compare the earnings and the intergenerational earnings mobility of immigrants with natives in Sweden. We find an … overall convergence in average earnings between immigrants and natives across generations. This convergence hides a divergence …
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Are we there yet? Intergenerational mobility and economic assimilation of second-generation immigrants in Estonia
Kivi, Laura Helena; Järve, Janno; Anspal, Sten; … - In: Baltic Journal of Economics 21 (2021) 2, pp. 157-182
child income rank for both natives and second-generation immigrants. Results from a detailed Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition … indicate that up to 21% of the gap between income ranks of second-generation immigrants and natives is related to differences … mobility is relatively high in Estonia both for natives and children of foreign-born, the native-immigrant earnings gap has not …
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Are we there yet? : intergenerational mobility and economic assimilation of second-generation immigrants in Estonia
Kivi, Laura Helena; Järve, Janno; Anspal, Sten; … - In: Baltic journal of economics 21 (2021) 2, pp. 157-182
child income rank for both natives and second-generation immigrants. Results from a detailed Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition … indicate that up to 21% of the gap between income ranks of second-generation immigrants and natives is related to differences … mobility is relatively high in Estonia both for natives and children of foreign-born, the native-immigrant earnings gap has not …
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Chapter 23. Labor and Credit Networks in Developing Economies
Munshi, Kaivan - In: Handbook of social economics : volume 1, (pp. 1223-1254). 2011
The past decade has witnessed a surge of interest in the economic analysis of networks. This chapter is concerned with the role played by labor and credit networks in shaping economic activity in developing countries. The problem of identifying network effects on economic outcomes is first...
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Intergenerational earnings persistence and the provision of public goods : evidence from Chile's constitutional process
Cortes Orihuela, Javier; Díaz, Juan D.; Gutiérrez … - In: Journal of economic inequality 21 (2023) 1, pp. 47-81
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Effects of a High-skilled Immigration Policy and Immigrant Occupational Attainment on Domestic Wages Effects
Maani, Sholeh; Chen, Y. - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 15 (2012) 2, pp. 101-121
The recent international literature on immigration wage effects has shown contrasting results. Past studies have … impact to negative impacts. This paper, by contrast, explores the outcomes of highly skilled immigration on the wages of … encourages skilled immigration and has exceptionally accurate immigrant data. Our analysis makes use of unit record data and …
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New evidence on international transferability of human capital
Gibbons, Eric M.; Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1/9, pp. 1-39
This article sheds new light on the portability of human capital. We estimate the returns to source country experiences, viz., general, occupation-specific, and task-specific experiences, using data from the New Immigrant Survey (NIS), conducted in 2003. While the "returns to general experience"...
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Mexican immigration, occupational clustering, and the local labor market adjustment of African-American workers
Toussaint-Comeau, Maude - In: IZA Journal of Migration 5 (2016) 14, pp. 1-31
questioned whether unfavorable trends in African-American wages and employment outcomes are tied to Mexican immigration. This … source of depression of wages for African-Americans stems not just from immigration. In fact, in some ways, occupation … clustering and specialization of Mexican immigrants mitigates impact of immigration on African-Americans on a whole range of low …
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Integration Policy Towards Immigrants: Current Experience
Bureiko, Nadiia - In: CES Working Papers 4 (2012) 1, pp. 12-23
In the contemporary world the intensity of the immigration movements is constantly increasing. Countries which … experience great immigrant flows are facing numerous problems which should be solved. The article studies the current immigration …
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