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Earnings assimilation of post-reunification East German migrants in West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Sauer, Irakli - 2024

We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We … to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The analysis uses administrative as well as survey data. The results … suggest that East Germans faced significant initial earnings disadvantages in West Germany, even conditional on age and …

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Child height and intergenerational transmission of health : evidence from ethnic Indians in England

Alacevich, Caterina; Tarozzi, Alessandro - 2016

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Intergenerational transmission of education among female immigrants

Niknami, Susan - In: Review of Economics of the Household 14 (2016) 3, pp. 715-744

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Occupational choice of migrants : does NEG tell something new?

Ivanova, Vera; Ushchev, Philip; Vakhitova, Hanna - 2015 - Very preliminary

We consider an empirical model in which individuals choose jointly their destination country and occupational choice. We plan to estimate this model using Ukrainian micro-data. The main results (to be yet obtained) will shed light on joint determinants of workers' migration decisions and their...

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High skilled immigration and the market for skilled labor : the role of occupational choice

Ma, Jie - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 63 (2020), pp. 55-79

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Do immigrants bring good health?

Giuntella, Osea; Mazzonna, Fabrizio - 2014

in Germany. We show that the convergence in health is heterogeneous across immigrants and occurs more rapidly among those …

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Do immigrants push natives towards safer jobs? : exposure to COVID-19 in the European Union

Bossavie, Laurent; Garrote Sanchez, Daniel; Makovec, Mattia - 2020

to control for potential unobservable factors that would lead migrants to self-select into more vulnerable occupations …

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Immigration and employment : substitute versus complementary labor in selected African countries

Viseth, Arina - 2020

This paper uses census and household survey data on Cameroon, Ghana, and South Africa to examine immigration's impact in the context of a segmented labor market in Sub-Saharan Africa. We find that immigration affects (i) employment (ii) employment allocation between informal and formal sectors,...

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Do immigrants improve the health of native workers? : immigration crowds native workers out of risky jobs and into less strenuous work, with consequent benefits to their health

Giuntella, Osea - 2014

Public debate on immigration focuses on its effects on wages and employment, yet the discussion typically fails to consider the effects of immigration on working conditions that affect workers' health. There is growing evidence that immigrants are more likely than natives to work in risky jobs,...

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Do immigrants shield the locals? : exposure to COVID-related risks in the European Union

Bossavie, Laurent; Garrote Sanchez, Daniel; Makovec, Mattia - In: Review of international economics 30 (2022) 5, pp. 1478-1514

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