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This article combines case study interviews with the tools of economic cost-benefit analysis to estimate the lifelong effects for individuals in Manitoba, Canada, who began engaging in prostitution as youths. The empirical findings reveal that sex workers retain only a small portion of their...
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employment probability and affects occupational choice. When selection into economic sector and occupation is regarded, we do not …
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This paper analyzes the Hebrew language proficiency, probability of employment, and labor market earnings of immigrants …
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This paper studies the distributions of literacy skills, education, and employment of immigrants and natives in three … skills, schooling, and employment across countries. For immigrants, the relations differ strongly: whereas literacy skills … form only a weak determinant of immigrant employment in the North American labor markets, in Norway literacy is much more …
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cohorts of Mexicans and Central Americans by comparing their earnings and employment probability to those of natives with … States without an employment rate disadvantage, and they surpassed natives within 10 years. We also find that Mexicans and …
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This paper provides a comprehensive quantitative assessment of the employment performance of first- and second … first-generation immigrants face a substantial employment penalty (up to -36% points) vis-à-vis their native counterparts …. Among the key drivers of access to employment, we find: i) education for the descendants of non-EU-born immigrants, and ii …
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This paper provides a comprehensive quantitative assessment of the employment performance of first- and second … first-generation immigrants face a substantial employment penalty (up to -36% points) vis-à-vis their native counterparts …. Among the key drivers of access to employment, we find: i) education for the descendants of non-EU-born immigrants, and ii …
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We compare winning and losing firms in lotteries for H-1B visas, matching administrative data on these lotteries to administrative tax data on U.S. firms and to approved U.S. patents. Winning one additional H-1B visa crowds out about 1.5 other workers at the firm. Additional H-1Bs have...
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only that first-generation immigrants face a substantial employment penalty (up to -36% points) vis-à-vis their native … counterparts, but also that their descendants continue to face serious difficulties in accessing the labour market. The employment …) citizenship acquisition is associated with significantly better employment outcomes, for both EU and non-EU-born immigrants; iii …
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This study investigates conditions favouring early labor marketintegration for immigrants in Sweden. The study is based on a survey among immigrants just two and a half years after they received a permanent residence permit. Factors such as work experience; Swedish spouse and the local labor...
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