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-being, which captures all of the important factors affected by immigration. …
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actions to mitigate the direct impact of the shock. In this paper, we use nine years of longitudinal data from the Household …
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Scheme, we find that higher local level immigration increased life satisfaction of young people and decreased life … satisfaction of old people. This finding is driven by the initial 'migration shock' – inflows that occurred in the first two years … level immigration increased natives' satisfaction with their dwelling, partner and social life. …
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This paper documents the effects of home-country Internet expansion on immigrants' health and subjective well-being (SWB). Combining data on SWB and health from the European Social Survey (ESS) with data on 3G and overall Internet expansion (ITU and Collins Batholomew), I find that immigrants'...
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This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study labor market assimilation of self-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage/salary workers are estimated. To control for endogenous sorting into the sectors, models of the self-employment...
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The aim of this paper is to analyse the role played by the different components of human capital in the wage determination of recent immigrants within the Spanish labour market. Using microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes 2007, the paper examines returns to human capital of...
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Recent studies point to a positive correlation between ethnic heterogeneity due to immigration and the propensity of … opting out from public schools for private alternatives. However, immigration across regions is hardly exogenous, which …
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This paper first presents a brief historical overview of immigration in Europe. We then provide (and distinguishing …
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diversity in the schooling accomplishments among different immigrant sub-groups and between legal and undocumented migrants. I …
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and OECD summary measures of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) strictness on one hand, and Unemployment Insurance …
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