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This paper explores the role of culture in determining divorce decisions by examining country of origin differences in divorce rates of immigrants in the United States. Because childhood-arriving immigrants are all exposed to a common set of US laws and institutions, we interpret relationships...
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This chapter explores immigrant labor market adjustment by first describing methodological and theoretical considerations central to the analysis of earnings growth and occupational mobility. When no restrictions are placed on entry earnings or earnings growth, an inverse relationship between...
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Immigration is one of the most important policy debates in Western countries. However, one aspect of the debate is … often mischaracterized by accusations that higher levels of immigration lead to higher levels of crime. The evidence, based … on empirical studies of many countries, indicates that there is no simple link between immigration and crime, but …
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is reduced and sometimes disappears after correcting for selection into employment. In most cases the remaining …
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EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May … distribution; and a permanent positive effect on full-time employment. …
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immigration on business dynamics and employment by combining U.S. data on immigrant inflows from the Current Population Survey …Immigration, like any positive labor supply shock, should increase the return to capital and spur business investment … immigrant inflows. Despite this clear prediction, there is sparse empirical evidence on the effect of immigration on business …
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integration programmes, family policies and career and diversity plans, the native-migrant employment gap in Belgium is still one … investigates how the motive for migrating to Belgium contributes to the native-migrant employment gap. Based on data from the 2014 … employment outcomes of labour migrants (with and without a job prior to migration), family reunion migrants, student migrants and …
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immigration on business dynamics and employment by combining U.S. data on immigrant inflows from the Current Population Survey …Immigration, like any positive labor supply shock, should increase the return to capital and spur business investment … immigrant inflows. Despite this clear prediction, there is sparse empirical evidence on the effect of immigration on business …
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In this paper we present important correlations between immigration and labor market outcomes of native workers in the … zero to positive correlation with changes in native wages and native employment, in aggregate and by skill group. We …
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Civilian displacement is a common phenomenon in developing countries confronted with internal conflict. While displacement directly affects forced migrants, it also contributes to deteriorating labour conditions of vulnerable groups in receiving communities. For the displaced population, the...
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