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remittance income by employing statistical matching to construct counterfactuals that allow us to compare the occurrence in child … labor in comparable households that differ solely in their access to remittances. We find that remittances have in general … failed to mitigate household reliance on child labor in Punjab. However, the impact depends critically on whether remittances …
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survey data indicates a similar pattern for total expenditures. With reduced outward aggregate remittances from Australia … nor the expenditures on imported food items changed differently for any group in that period, while an analysis with HILDA …
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matching between the existing demand and the Ph.D. holders' specialization. The aim of this paper is to test whether migrating … from some regions may improve job-education matching in Italy. The econometric strategy takes into account Ph.D. holders …' selfselection into non-academic employment as well as the endogeneity of the migration choice. Results demonstrate that migration …
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This study explores the role of individual and local marriage market characteristics in whether recently wed U.S. residents "imported" a spouse instead of marrying someone already present in the country. Our findings indicate that U.S. natives and immigrants whose spouse is a "marriage migrant"...
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STEM-focused industries are critical to the innovation-driven economy. As many firms are running short of STEM workers, international immigrants are increasingly recognized as a potential for high-tech job recruitment. This paper studies STEM occupations in Sweden 2011-2015 and tests hypotheses...
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Previous research has found identity to be relevant for international migration, but has neglected internal mobility as … in the case of the Great Chinese Migration. However, the context of the identities of migrants and their adaption in the … migration process is likely to be quite different. The gap is closed by examining social assimilation and the effect on the …
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We study how licensing, certification and unionisation affect the wages of natives and migrants and their representation among licensed, certified, and unionized workers. We provide evidence of a dual role of labor market institutions, which both screen workers based on unobservable...
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international migration. Examining social identity and labor market outcomes in China, the country with the largest internal …
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Temporary and circular migration programs have been devised by many destination countries and supported by the European … additional reason for proposing temporary migration policies based on the characteristics of the foreign labor-effort supply. The … when temporary migration policies are adopted. -- Migration ; Exertion of effort ; Contracted Temporary Migration …
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This paper shows that trade and emigration of skilled workers from a poor country is complementary but that between trade and emigration of unskilled workers is a substitute. The asymmetric effect of more openness to trade on the local wages seems to be crucial in driving such results. The...
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