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Mexican entrepreneurship : a comparison of self-employment in Mexico and the United States

Fairlie, Robert W. (contributor); … - 2006

Mexican Americans are only 6 percent, about half the rate among non-Latino whites. Using data from the Mexican and U ….S. population census, we show that neither industrial composition nor differences in the age and education of Mexican born … the United States, however, estimates indicate that low levels of education and the youth of Mexican immigrants residing …

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Mexican Entrepreneurship : A Comparison of Self-Employment in Mexico and the United States

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015

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Educational attainment of second-generation immigrants : a US-Canada comparison

Liu, Xingfei - 2014

In this paper, I analyze educational outcomes for second generation immigrants and compare them to those of natives. I use a dynamic structural model and focus on transition paths from school to work for youths in Canada and the U.S. Using data extracted from the 1997 National Longitudinal...

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Educational Attainment of Second-Generation Immigrants : A U.S.-Canada Comparison

Liu, Xingfei - 2014

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Diversity in Schools : Immigrants and the Educational Performance of U.S. Born Students

Figlio, David N.; Giuliano, Paola; Marchingiglio, Riccardo - 2021

We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset combining population-level birth and school records from Florida. This research question is complicated by substantial school selection of US-born students, especially among...

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Diversity in schools: immigrants and the educational performance of U.S. born students

Figlio, David N.; Giuliano, Paola; Marchingiglio, Riccardo - 2021

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Native-migrant differences in risk attitudes

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - 2006

This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second...

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Comparing Public Transfers between Immigrants and Natives : A National Transfer Accounts Approach

M., Gilbert; Navaux, Julien; Mérette, Marcel; … - 2022

In Canada, immigration constitutes the primary response to population ageing. While extensive research has covered the impact of immigration on various aspects of the labour supply, the financial aspect has received less attention. In this study, we apply the National Transfer Account (NTA)...

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Kick it Like Özil? Decomposing the Native-Migrant Education Gap

Krause-Pilatus, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Schüller, Simone - 2012

We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to analyze the determinants of the persistent native-migrant gap. One part of the gap can be attributed to differences in socioeconomic background and another part remains unexplained....

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Analyzing Educational Achievement Differences between Second-Generation Immigrants : Comparing Germany and German-Speaking Switzerland

Kunz, Johannes - 2014

In this study, I provide evidence that the educational achievement of second-generation immigrants in German-speaking Switzerland is greater than in Germany. The impact of the first-generation immigrants' destination decision on their offspring's educational achievement seems to be much more...

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