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Transnational social mobility of minorities: A comparative analysis of 14 immigrant minority groups

Kislev, Elyakim - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 8 (2018) 15, pp. 1-21

immigrants who were minorities in the source country and moved to another. This paper integrates the literature on minorities … mobility of minorities. Using the US census and the American Community Survey, 14 groups of minorities (e.g., British … majority). Findings show that all minorities have a lower starting point than the corresponding majority group from the same …

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International students, immigration and earnings growth: The effect of a pre-immigration host-country university education

Hou, Feng; Lu, Yuqian - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 7 (2017) 5, pp. 1-24

-educated immigrants are a highly heterogeneous group, and the key factor differentiating their post-immigration earnings from the earnings … experience before immigration added only a small or no earnings gain after immigration for Canadian-educated immigrants. …

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Migration, cultural identity and diasporas: An identity economics approach

Prinz, Aloys; Siegel, Melissa - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 10 (2019) 1, pp. 1-20

cultures. In a simple immigration game it is shown that immigrants may prefer to live rather in diaspora communities than to …

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The impact of host language proficiency across the immigrants' earning distribution in Spain

Budría, Santiago; de Ibarreta, Carlos Martinez; … - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 7 (2017) 12, pp. 1-27

This paper explores the impact of Spanish language proficiency on immigrant earnings in Spain using an instrumental variable quantile regression approach. The impact is on average roughly 17.2% but varies substantially across the earning distribution. The return to destination language...

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Illegal immigration and media exposure: Evidence on individual attitudes

Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria; Puglisi, Riccardo - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 7 (2017) 14, pp. 1-36

Illegal immigration has been the focus of much debate in receiving countries, but little is known about the drivers of … significantly correlated with public opinion on illegal immigration. Controlling for education, income, ideology, and other socio …, but cannot entirely explain the correlation between media exposure and attitudes about illegal immigration. …

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Migrating out of a crowded labor market: Evidence from Egypt

David, Anda; Jarreau, Joachim - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 7 (2017) 6, pp. 1-28

We analyze the determinants of emigration at the individual and household level, using three waves of the Egyptian labor market panel survey (ELMPS) covering the 1998-2012 period. Exploiting the panel structure of the data allows us to reduce the risk of reverse causality and to estimate the...

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Diaspora externalities

Rapoport, Hillel - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 10 (2019) 2, pp. 1-26

This review article surveys the recent economic literature on diaspora networks, globalization, and development. Diasporas are shown to contribute to the economic and cultural integration of source (i.e., developing) countries into the global economy. I first review the effect of diaspora...

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First fired, first hired? Business cycles and immigrant labor market transitions

Xu, Huanan - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 8 (2018) 19, pp. 1-36

Using individual-level Current Population Survey (CPS) data matched across adjacent months from 1996 to 2013, this paper examines immigrant-native differentials in labor market transitions to changes in the business cycle. The paper captures economic fluctuations by measuring deviations in local...

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Age at immigration matters for labor market integration - the Swedish example

Gustafsson, Bjorn Anders; Mac Innes, Hanna; Österberg, … - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 7 (2017) 1, pp. 1-23

This paper analyses how age at immigration to Sweden and getting a first foothold in the labor market is related. We …

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Asymmetric information and the discount on foreign-acquired degrees in Canada

Aydede, Yigit; Dar, Atul A. - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 10 (2019) 1, pp. 1-22

A growing wage gap between immigrant and native-born workers is well documented and is a fundamental policy issue in Canada. It is quite possible that wage differences, commonly attributed to the lower quality of foreign credentials or the deficiency in the accreditation of these credentials,...

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