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Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015

attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are … immigrant entrepreneurs' contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in …

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Migration Background and Educational Tracking : Is There a Double Disadvantage for Second-Generation Immigrants?

Lüdemann, Elke - 2010

Research on immigrants' educational disadvantages largely focuses on differences in student achievement tests. Exploiting data from the German PIRLS extension, we find that second-generation immigrants face additional disadvantages with respect to grades and teacher recommendations for secondary...

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The Effect of Language Training on Immigrants' Economic Integration - Empirical Evidence from France

Lochmann, Alexia - 2017

We examine the impact of language training on the economic integration of immigrants in France. The assignment to this training, offered by the French Ministry of the Interior, depends mainly on a precise rule: the training is available when the test score of an initial language exam is below a...

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Immigrant Entrepreneurship

Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2019

We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to … into the United States, comprehensive data for quantifying immigrant entrepreneurship are difficult to assemble. We combine …

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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox and Health Convergence

Constant, Amelie F. - 2017

The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...

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Immigration, Regional Conditions, and Crime : Evidence from an Allocation Policy in Germany

Piopiunik, Marc - 2015

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, more than 3 million people with German ancestors immigrated to Germany under a special law granting immediate citizenship. Exploiting the exogenous allocation of ethnic German immigrants by German authorities across regions upon arrival, we find that...

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Estimating Immigrant Earnings Profiles When Migrations are Temporary

Dustmann, Christian - 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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Analyzing Educational Achievement Differences between Second-Generation Immigrants : Comparing Germany and German-Speaking Switzerland

Kunz, Johannes - 2014

In this study, I provide evidence that the educational achievement of second-generation immigrants in German-speaking Switzerland is greater than in Germany. The impact of the first-generation immigrants' destination decision on their offspring's educational achievement seems to be much more...

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More Opportunity, More Cooperation? The Behavioral Effects of Birthright Citizenship on Immigrant Youth

Felfe, Christina - 2018

Inequality of opportunity, particularly when overlaid with racial, ethnic, or cultural differences, increases the social distance between individuals, which is widely believed to limit the scope of cooperation. A central question, then, is how to bridge such divides. We study the effects of a...

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Dismantling the 'Jungle' : Migrant Relocation and Extreme Voting in France

Vertier, Paul - 2018

Can a small scale inflow of migrants affect electoral outcomes? We study whether the relocation of migrants from the Calais “Jungle” to temporary migrant-centers (CAOs) in France affected the results of the 2017 presidential election. Using an instrumental variables approach that relies on...

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