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Remittances, school quality, and household education expenditures in Nepal

Bansak, Cynthia; Chezum, Brian; Giri, Animesh - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-19

A heightened interest in understanding the remitting practices of immigrants and their impact on a variety of economic indicators has emerged as remittances to developing countries have risen substantially over the past decade. If remittances primarily enhance consumption, they may have no...

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Remittances and child labor in Bolivia

Coon, Michael - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 1, pp. 1-26

This article explores the effect of remittances on the prevalence and intensity of child labor in Bolivia. Using household survey data, we find that children in remittance-receiving households are less likely to be actively supplying labor, and the number of hours worked per week declines with...

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Can immigrants help women "have it all"? : immigrant labor and women's joint fertility and labor supply decisions

Furtado, Delia - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-19

This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high-skilled US-born women in cities that have experienced larger...

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Differences in employment outcomes for college town stayers and leavers

Winters, John V. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-22

New college graduates must choose whether to stay in the geographic area where they completed their degree or move to a new location to begin their careers. This paper classifies 41 U.S. metropolitan areas as “college towns” and investigates differences in employment outcomes between college...

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Economic liberalisation and the mobility of minority groups: evidence from Māori in New Zealand

Sin, Isabelle; Stillman, Steven - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 4, pp. 1-18

Between 1984 and 1993, New Zealand undertook comprehensive market-oriented economic reforms. In this paper, we use census data to examine how the internal mobility of Māori compares to that of Europeans in New Zealand in the period after these reforms. It is often suggested that Māori are less...

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Are migrants in large cities underpaid? : evidence from Vietnam

Cuong Viet Nguyen; Pham Minh, Thai - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 20, pp. 1-23

This paper examines the wage gap between migrants and non-migrants in large cities in Vietnam. It finds that migrants receive substantially lower wages than non-migrants. The wage gap tends to be larger for older migrants. However, once observed demographic characteristics of workers are...

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Immigration and wages : new evidence from the African American Great Migration

Gardner, John - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 22, pp. 1-45

During the African American Great Migration, millions of blacks left the Southern USA in favor of cities in the North …. Despite the social and economic consequences of this migration, the question of its impacts on labor markets in the North has … aggregate Northern labor market to provide new evidence on the effects of the Great Migration on wages in the North, redoubling …

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The working hours of immigrants in Germany : temporary versus permanent

Kahanec, Martin; Shields, Michael P. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-15

Migration is often viewed as an investment decision. Temporary migrants can be expected to invest less in accumulating …

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How skilled immigration may improve economic equality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-13

. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving …

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Migration, risk attitudes, and entrepreneurship : evidence from a representative immigrant survey

Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-25

Do more risk loving migrants opt for self-employment? We use a novel vignette-adjusted measure of risk preferences to investigate the link between risk aversion and entrepreneurship in migrant communities. Using an original representative household survey of the migrant population in the Greater...

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