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We study how job mobility, firms, and firm-ladder climbing can shape immigrants’ labor market success. Our context is the mass migration of former Soviet Union Jews to Israel during the 1990s. Once in Israel, these immigrants faced none of the legal barriers that are typically posed by...
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the host countries. Through a general literature review and examination of specific immigration countries, we provide …
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In this paper, we show that the wage assimilation of immigrants is the result of the intricate interplay between individual skill accumulation and dynamic equilibrium effects in the labor market. When immigrants and natives are imperfect substitutes, increasing immigrant inflows widen the wage...
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This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women’s behavior in the United States - looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor...
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We analyze an immigration reform in Denmark that tightened refugee immigrants' eligibility criteria for permanent …
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Germany has become the second-most important destination for migrants worldwide. Using all waves from the microcensus …
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. Discussing the ways in which refugees and economic migrants are differently selected and so might be expected to perform … 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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How do political preferences and voting behaviors respond to information coming from abroad? Focusing on the international migration network, I document that opinion changes at the origins spill over to 1st- and 2nd-generation immigrants abroad. Local diasporas, social media, and family ties to...
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We study immigration policy in a small receiving economy under self-selection of migrants. We show that a non …-discriminatory immigration policy choice affects and is affected by the migratory decisions of skilled and unskilled foreign workers. From this … interaction multiple equilibria may arise, which are driven by the natives' expectations on the welfare effects of immigration. In …
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self-esteem for immigrant girls. This is especially true for Muslims, where traditional cultural identity is particularly …
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