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Immigration policy and immigrants' sleep : evidence from DACA

Giuntella, Osea; Lonsky, Jakub; Mazzona, Fabrizio; … - 2020

stress associated with immigrant status and immigration policy can directly affect mental health. While previous studies have … related to the undocumented immigrant legal status. …

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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence

Constant, Amelie - 2017

insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and … host country, converging to the health of natives or becoming even worse. A deeper understanding of immigrant health …

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Wage distributions in origin societies and occupational choices of immigrant generations in the US

Zhan, Crystal - 2020

This paper studies the occupational selection among generations of immigrants in the United States and links their choices to the occupational wage distribution in their country of origin. The empirical results suggest that individuals are more likely to take up an occupation in the US that was...

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Immigrant category of admission and the earnings of adults and children : how far does the apple fall?

Warman, Casey; Webb, Matthew; Worswick, Christopher - 2018

Immigrants in many Western countries have experienced poor economic outcomes. This has led to a lack of integration of child immigrants (the 1.5 generation) and the second generation in some countries. However, in Canada, child immigrants and the second generation have on average integrated very...

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Self-employment differentials among foreign-born STEM and non-STEM workers

Cai, Zhengyu; Winters, John V. - 2017

This paper uses the American Community Survey to examine the previously overlooked fact that foreign STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) graduates have much lower self-employment rates than their non-STEM counterparts, with an unconditional difference of 3.3 percentage...

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The immigrant-native wage gap in Germany revisited

Ingwersen, Kai; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2019 - This version: 17 May 2019

low wage deciles that is even more pronounced within immigrant subgroups. Cultural and economic distances each have a …

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Measuring labour differences between natives, non-natives, and natives with an ethnic-minority background

Drydakis, Nick - 2017

Through a field study we measure differences in employment outcomes between natives, non-natives, and natives with an ethnic-minority background. It is suggested that the joint effect of productivity uncertainties and distastes against ethnic-minority groups should be higher for non-natives than...

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Wage effects of educational mismatch according toworkers' origin : the role of demographics and firm characteristics

Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2021

This paper analyses the wage effects of educational mismatch by workers' origin using a sizeable, detailed matched employer-employee dataset for Belgium. Relying on a fine-grained approach to measuring educational mismatch, the results show that over-educated workers, regardless of their origin,...

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A historical note on the assimilation rates of foreign-born men and women in the U.S.

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Dowhan, Dan; Liu, Xingfei; … - 2025

immigrant men have low initial earnings and sluggish earnings growth. This methodology is based on flawed assumptions (Duleep …, Liu, and Regets, 2022). Removing these assumptions reveals high earnings growth for post-1965 immigrant men in accordance … with the Immigrant Human Capital Investment Model (Duleep and Regets, 1999). A similar story emerges for immigrant women …

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Moving up the social ladder? : wages of first- and second-generation immigrants from developing countries

Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022

As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working-age population in the developed world, their labour market integration constitutes a key factor for fostering economic development and social cohesion. Using a granular, matched...

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