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In this inaugural lecture, I will estimate the effects on language skills of two characteristics of school populations: average/share and diversity, both on the ethnic and the sociocultural dimension. I will use the cross-national PISA 206 data, for both 15-year-old native pupils and pupils with...
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This edited collection of migration papers would like to emphasise the acute need for migration related study and research in Romania. At this time, migration and mobility are studied as minor subjects in Economics, Sociology, Political Sciences and European Studies only (mostly at post-graduate...
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This paper estimates the impact of the extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey from 5 to 8 years—which increased the 8th grade completion rate for women by 30 percentage points—on marriage and birth outcomes of teenage women in Turkey. We find that increased compulsory schooling years...
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. Unlike conventional approaches, the present study uses macro data to examine the response of wages to immigration flows. We … use instrumental variable (IV) techniques to deal with the potential endogeneity of immigration. Results from alternative …
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indigenous workers. Also, there is evidence that: (i) medium skilled unemployment declines with immigration and (ii) labor force … participation rises due to immigration …
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This paper studies the effects of immigration on the wages of Argentinean native workers over the period 1993-2012. I …. Immigration from these six countries accounts for 95% of the total immigration from Latin American countries. The empirical … of heterogeneous impact by country of origin. Overall, findings show a significant negative impact of immigration on …
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Using data from the European Social Survey 2002-2011 covering immigrants in 26 European countries, this paper analyzes the impact of source- and host-country characteristics on female immigrant labor supply. We find that immigrant women’s labor supply in their host country is positively...
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Abstract: This paper applies the Blinder-Oaxaca methodology in order to decompose the average earnings differentials between Greek workers and different groups of immigrants. We use information about 8,429 individuals of which 1,185 are immigrants. The data are drawn from the Greek Labor Force...
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relationship between that misperceptions about immigrants an immigration and discrimination against immigrants in labor market. Our … of an econometric model confirms that misperceptions about the size of immigration and its effects on the country …
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Abstract: This paper applies cointegration analysis and Granger non-causality tests in order to identify the direction of causality between migration in Greece and two macroeconomic variables: GDP and unemployment. We use annual data for the 1980-2011 period. The data are drawn from the...
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