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

Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014), pp. 1-25

investigate the link between risk aversion and entrepreneurship in migrant communities. Using an original representative household … aversion and entrepreneurship. Our results show that the use of vignettes improves the significance of the results, as they … risk preferences and entrepreneurship reported in previous studies. …

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Does Italy represent an opportunity for temporary migrants from the eastern partnership countries?

Marchetti, Sabrina; Piazzalunga, Daniela; Venturini, … - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 8, pp. 1-20

The paper reviews the dynamics and characteristics of immigrant inflows to Italy from the EU's Eastern Partnership countries. In particular, it compares Ukrainian and Moldovan migrants, which are the most numerous nationalities. Even though both groups show a feminisation of flows, high...

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Minimum wages, earnings, and migration

Boffy-Ramirez, Ernest - In: IZA Journal of Migration 2 (2013), pp. 1-24

Does increasing a state's minimum wage induce migration into the state? Previous literature has shown mobility in response to welfare benefit differentials across states, yet few have examined the minimum wage as a cause of mobility. Focusing on low-skilled immigrants, this paper empirically...

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Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund zahlen elf Euro mehr Miete pro Monat

Winke, Tim - In: DIW Wochenbericht 83 (2016) 47, pp. 1133-1143

Seit 2006 gilt in Deutschland das Allgemeine Gleichbehandlungsgesetz - auch für den Wohnungsmarkt. Die vorliegenden Berechnungen auf Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels zeigen jedoch, dass Mieterinnen und Mieter mit Migrationshintergrund deutschlandweit im Jahr 2013 durchschnittlich knapp elf...

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How skilled immigration may improve economic equality

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

Mobile workers involve flows of labor and human capital and contribute to a more efficient allocation of resources. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving society. The paper suggests that skilled immigration...

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Trust of second-generation immigrants: Intergenerational transmission or cultural assimilation?

Moschion, Julie; Tabasso, Domenico - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014), pp. 1-30

This paper studies the respective influences of intergenerational transmission and the environment in shaping individual trust. Focusing on second generation immigrants in Australia and the United States, we exploit the variation in the home country and in the host country to separate the effect...

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Skill mismatch among migrant workers: Evidence from a large multi-country dataset

Visintin, Stefano; Tijdens, Kea; Klaveren, Maarten van - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-34

This article unravels the migrants' incidence of skill mismatch taking into consideration different migration flows. Mismatch is the situation in which workers have jobs for which lower skill levels are required compared to their education. We use a dataset (from a large multi-country web...

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Better migrants, better PISA results: Findings from a natural experiment

Cattaneo, Maria A.; Wolter, Stefan C. - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-19

Switzerland changed its migration policy in the 1990s from a "non-qualified only" policy to one of almost free movement of labor. To analyze the impact of this policy change on the schooling outcomes of children of first-generation migrants, the paper compares the PISA results of...

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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 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 M¯aori compares to that of Europeans in New Zealand in the period after these reforms. It is often suggested that M¯aori are...

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Inter-ethnic Partnerships: Key Characteristics, and What They Reveal about Successful Integration

Nottmeyer, Olga - In: Weekly Report 6 (2010) 15, pp. 112-120

Partnerships between immigrants and native-born citizens are commonly viewed as the product of successful social integration, as well as a possible driving force of economic success. Thus, immigrants living in inter-ethnic partnerships have on average a higher level of education, better...

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