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Economic influences on child migration decisions: evidence from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh
Edmonds, Eric V.; Salinger, Philip - 2007
examining the correlates of out-migration for children under 15 whose mother's reside in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India. 1 … are consistent with a classical view of migration: children on average appear to migrate out of competitive, rural child … labor markets for net financial gain. The costs of migration are important. Children are less likely to migrate from more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268330
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Improving the labor market outcomes of minorities: the role of employment quota
Prakash, Nishith - 2009
exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271335
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Trust of second generation immigrants: Intergenerational transmission or cultural assimilation?
Moschion, Julie; Tabasso, Domenico - 2013
This paper studies the respective influence of intergenerational transmission and the environment in shaping individual trust. Focusing on second generation immigrants in Australia and the United States, we exploit the variation in the home and in the host country to separate the effect of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293233
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Legal status at entry, economic performance, and self-employment proclivity: a bi-national study of immigrants
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2005
There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272326
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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-employment Proclivity: A Bi-national Study of Immigrants
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762301
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Demographic alternatives for aging industrial countries: increased total fertility rate, labor force participation, or immigration
Holzmann, Robert - 2005
The paper investigates the demographic alternatives for dealing with the projected population aging and low or negative growth of the population and labor force in the North. Without further immigration, the total labor force in Europe and Russia, the high-income countries of East Asia and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267566
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Raising female employment : reflexions and policy tools
Garibaldi, Pietro; Wasmer, Etienne - 2003
While there is consensus on the need to raise the time spent in the market by European women, it is not clear how these goals should be achieved. Tax wedges, assistance in the job search process, and part-time jobs are policy instruments that are widely debated in policy circles. The paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261649
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Marginal employment': stepping stone or dead end? Evaluating the German experience
Freier, Ronny; Steiner, Viktor - 2007
Marginal employment', i.e. employment at low working hours and earnings not covered by social security, has been gaining importance in the German economy over the past decade. Using a large newly available panel data set and statistical matching techniques, we analyse the effects of marginal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268285
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Measuring the Spatial Misallocation of Labor: The Returns to India-Gulf Guest Work in a Natural Experiment
Clemens, Michael A. - 2019
information, debt, and later migration were incompatible with systematic fraud. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984655
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Economic Influences on Child Migration Decisions: Evidence from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh
Edmonds, Eric; Salinger, Philip - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
examining the correlates of out-migration for children under 15 whose mother's reside in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India. 1 … are consistent with a classical view of migration: children on average appear to migrate out of competitive, rural child … labor markets for net financial gain. The costs of migration are important. Children are less likely to migrate from more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703711