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The selection of migrants and returnees in Romania: Evidence and long-run implications

Ambrosini, J. William; Mayr, Karin; Peri, Giovanni; … - 2012

migrants and returnees. We construct measures of selection across skill groups and estimate the average and the skill …-specific premium for migration and return for three typical destinations of Romanian migrants after 1990. Once we account for migration … costs, we find evidence that the selection and sorting of migrants by skills is driven by different returns in countries of …

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Remittances and portfolio values: An inquiry using Spanish immigrants from Africa, Europe and the Americas

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Pozo, Susan - 2012

we would expect given migrants' diverse backgrounds and motives for emigrating. Additionally, remitting patterns change …

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Recent trends in the earnings of new immigrants to the United States

Borjas, George J.; Friedberg, Rachel M. - 2009

This paper studies long-term trends in the labor market performance of immigrants in the United States, using the 1960-2000 PUMS and 1994-2009 CPS. While there was a continuous decline in the earnings of new immigrants 1960-1990, the trend reversed in the 1990s, with newcomers doing as well in...

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Long-term outcomes of vocational rehabilitation programs: Labor market transitions and job durations for immigrants

Ekhaugen, Tyra - 2007

This paper employs a flexible dependent hazard rate model to examine the transition to work, job durations and subsequent transitions into and out of the welfare system for all the individuals who participated on a vocational rehabilitation program in Norway during 1995-2002. The effect of being...

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Does intermarriage pay off? A panel data analysis

Nottmeyer, Olga - 2010

Taking advantage of the panel structure of the data, the impact of intermarriage on labor market productivity as measured by earnings is examined. Contrarily to previous studies which rely on instrumental variable techniques, selection issues are addressed within a fixed effects framework. The...

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Immigration and status exchange in Australia and the United States

Choi, Kate H.; Tienda, Marta; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; … - 2011

The claim that marriage is a venue for status exchange of achieved traits, like education, and ascribed attributes, notably race and ethnic membership, has regained traction in the social stratification literature. Most studies that consider status exchanges ignore birthplace as a social...

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Social housing and location choices of immigrants in France

Fougère, Denis; Kramarz, Francis; Rathelot, Roland; … - 2011

INSEE (Paris) in 1982, 1990, and 1999. Our estimates show that, in general, migrants live more frequently in social housing … than French natives, other observables being equal. In particular, this probability is higher for migrants from Turkey …, Morocco, Southeast Asia, Algeria, Tunisia and Sub-Saharan Africa (in descending order). We find also that migrants of all …

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Migrant entrepreneurs and credit constraints under labour market discrimination

Frijters, Paul; Kong, Tao; Meng, Xin - 2011

We use a unique data of representative migrants and urban local workers in 15 Chinese cities to investigate …

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Ethnic concentration and language fluency of immigrants

Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - 2010

The paper analyses the impact of regional own-ethnic concentration on the language proficiency of immigrants. It solves the endogeneity of immigrants' location choices by exploiting the fact that guest-workers in Germany after WWII were initially placed by firms and labor agencies. We find a...

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Does higher education help immigrants find a job? A survival analysis

Brück-Klingberg, Andrea; Burkert, Carola; Garloff, Alfred - 2011

We analyse the role that education signals play in the transition rates from unemployment to finding a job. We compare the results for Ethnic Germans with those for foreigners from the same origin countries and Native Germans. In the first case, the two have the same labour market access but...

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