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Real exchange rates and the earnings of immigrants

Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin; Surovtseva, Tetyana - 2023

Germany when a unit of earnings from Germany allows for larger consumption at home settle for lower entry wages, but …We relate origin-destination real price differences to immigrants' reservation wages and their career trajectories …, exploiting administrative data from Germany and the 2004 enlargement of the European Union. We find that immigrants who enter …

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Estimating immigrant earnings profiles when migrations are temporary

Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2016

The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many - if not most - migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...

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The labor market integration of refugee migrants in high-income countries

Brell, Courtney; Dustmann, Christian; Preston, Ian - 2020

. Discussing the ways in which refugees and economic migrants are differently selected and so might be expected to perform … differently in a host country's labor market, we examine employment and wages for these groups over time after arrival. There is … migrants. While the gaps between the groups can be seen to decrease on a timescale of a decade or two, this is more pronounced …

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Illegal migration and consumption behavior of immigrant households

Dustmann, Christian; Fasani, Francesco; Speciale, Biagio - 2016

We analyze the effect of immigrants' legal status on their consumption behavior using unique survey data that samples both documented and undocumented immigrants. To address the problem of sorting into legal status, we propose two alternative identification strategies as exogenous source of...

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Selective outmigration and the estimation of immigrants' earnings profiles

Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2014

immigrants is selective both in terms of migrants' individual characteristics and their economic outcomes. We then examine the …

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Permanent residency and refugee immigrants' skill investment

Nielson Arendt, Jacob; Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin - 2023

We analyze an immigration reform in Denmark that tightened refugee immigrants' eligibility criteria for permanent residency to incentivize their labor market attachment and acquisition of local language skills. Contrary to what the reform intended, the overall employment of those affected...

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Inequality and immigration

Dustmann, Christian; Kastis, Yannis; Preston, Ian - 2023

This paper investigates the relationship between immigration and inequality in the UK over the past forty years. This is a period when the share of foreign-born in the UK population increased from 5.3% in 1975 to 13.4% in 2015. We evaluate the impact immigration had on wage inequality in the UK...

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The dynamics of return migration, human capital accumulation, and wage assimilation

Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2021

profiles. Our study also explains the willingness of immigrants to accept jobs at wages that seem unacceptable to natives …

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The career costs of children

Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Stevens, Katrien - 2016

We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of labor supply, fertility and savings, incorporating occupational choices, with specific wage paths and skill atrophy that vary over the career. This allows us to understand the trade-off between occupational choice and desired fertility, as well as the...

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Who benefits from universal child care? : estimating marginal returns to early child care attendance

Cornelißen, Thomas; Dustmann, Christian; Raute, Anna; … - 2018

In this paper, we examine the heterogeneous treatment effects of a universal child care (preschool) program in Germany …

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