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The issue of international migration has moved to the top of the political agenda in recent years. The heated media debates tend to hide the fact that the phenomenon of modern migration is complex and multifaceted; actually, there are few social issues where popular opinion and the research...
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The presentation intends to analyse population change in Romania after 1989 in a regional prospective. Absolute population change and the changes in the age structure as well as internal and international migrations are put into relation to the labour market changes. In the last two decades the...
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We investigate the role of culture in explaining economic outcomes at individual level analyzing how cultural values from the home country affect the decision to work of immigrants in Italy, using the National Survey of Households with Immigrants. Following the "epidemiological approach", we...
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This study aims to analyze recent trends in labor migration in six Central Asian and South Caucasian countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. As observed, migration has been an important tool for income generation and for the regulation of the complex...
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background, ethnicity, race, and country of birth. Immigrants with the lightest skin color earn on average 17 percent more than …
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The Local Status Quo Analysis provides an overview of the trends in youth migration and of the related social phenomena, respectively. The study is based on policy-oriented research. The first aim is to synthetize the findings of the YOUMIG research activities concerning youth migration. In this...
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We address the fundamental yet long overdue question that U.S. immigration policies hinge on: “How big is the H-1B specialty workforce?” During the past decade, the H-1B specialty visa annually admitted between 125,000 and 155,000 skilled foreign workers for a stay of up to six years,...
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We test for an effect of Arizona's 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) on the proportion of the state population characterized as foreign-born, as non-citizen, and as non-citizen Hispanic. We use the synthetic control method to select a group of states against which the population trends of...
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This study reviews and evaluates the intertwined relationship between immigration and religiosity, focusing on the two sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. Based on the existing literature and on a statistical analysis of several data sets (the International Social Survey...
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Does higher educational attainment lead to greater participation in self-employment? Available studies agree and disagree on this subject through various explanations. We invoke an empirical example from the experiences of immigrants moving from poor countries to rich countries. Further, we...
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