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Determinants of savings and remittances: empirical evidence from immigrants to Germany

Sinning, Mathias - 2007

This paper investigates the determinants of migrants' financial transfers to their home country using German data. A …. Moreover, while the effect of the household size on migrants' transfers abroad turns out to be significantly negative … is the correct specification for the analysis of migrants' savings and remittances rather than the conventional Tobit …

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Are immigrants more mobile than natives? Evidence from Germany

Schündeln, Matthias - 2007

Low rates of internal migration in many European countries contribute to the persistence of significant regional labor market differences. To further our understanding of the underlying reasons I study internal migration in Germany, using the Mikrozensus, a very large sample of households living...

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The effect of minimum wages on immigrants' employment and earnings

Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline - 2008

This study examines how minimum wage laws affect the employment and earnings of low-skilled immigrants and natives in the U.S. Minimum wage increases might have larger effects among low-skilled immigrants than among natives because, on average, immigrants earn less than natives due to lower...

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Immigrant networks and their implications for occupational choice and wages

Patel, Krishna; Vella, Francis - 2007

This paper employs United States Census data to study the occupational allocation of immigrants. The data reveal that the occupational shares of various ethnic groups have grown drastically in regional labor markets over the period 1980 to 2000. We examine the extent to which this growth can be...

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The effects of naturalization on immigrants' employment probability (France, 1968 - 1999)

Fougère, Denis; Safi, Mirna - 2008

Naturalization is usually regarded as an important sign of civic and political integration amongst immigrants, but it can also be seen as a factor of their economic integration. The aim of this study is to analyze the naturalization phenomenon in France and examine its link with the immigrants'...

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Occupational attainment and immigrant economic progress in Australia

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2008

Using data from the 2001 Australian Census of Population and Housing, on adult men in full-time employment, this paper augments a conventional human capital earnings function with information on occupations. It also estimates models of occupational attainment. The results from both the earnings...

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Does employment protection help immigrants? Evidence from European labor markets

Sá, Filipa - 2008

High levels of employment protection reduce hiring and firing and have a theoretically ambiguous effect on the employment level. Immigrants, being new to the labor market, may be less aware of employment protection regulations and less likely to claim their rights, which may create a gap between...

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Interethnic marriage: a choice between ethnic and educational similarities

Furtado, Delia; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2008

This paper examines the effects of education on intermarriage, and specifically whether the mechanisms through which education affects intermarriage differ by immigrant generation, age at arrival, and race. We consider three main paths through which education affects marriage choice. First,...

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The asset portfolios of native-born and foreign-born households

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hildebrand, Vincent A. - 2008

This paper analyses the net worth and asset portfolios of native- and foreign-born Australian families using HILDA (wave 2) data. Specifically, we estimate a system of asset equations with an adding-up constraint imposed to control for variation in households' total net worth. Our results...

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The negative assimilation of immigrants: a special case

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2008

Research on the economic or labor market assimilation of immigrants has to date focused on the degree of improvement in their economic status with duration in the destination. This pattern has been found for all the immigrant receiving countries, time periods and data sets that have been...

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