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recent decades. If immigration harms the labor opportunities of natives, especially the least skilled ones, in the form of … where these effects should have been stronger. By analyzing the behavior of population, employment and wages of U.S. natives … imperfectly substitutable in production and we exploit the differences in immigration across these groups to infer their impact on …
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We investigate whether exposure to immigrant peers at school affects natives' future interactions with ethnic minorities. Identification is based on variation in immigrant exposure across cohorts within school catchment areas in Sweden. We document that natives respond to immigrants by changing...
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, without the rise in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be considerably higher. Immigration and secularization, and the …
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particular at the marriage market. There are also non-trivial effects on employment, but a more limited impact on education and …
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exclusion restriction assumption, (iv) inconsistency in the definition of employment variable across men and women (and a … problematic definition of employment of women), (v) elementary mistakes in data cleaning, RDD estimation, and interpretation of … policy effects on psychological violence and almost null effects on women's employment, and positive but statistically …
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In present day Germany, one in seven children is raised in a single parent household. We investigate the effect of single parenthood on children's educational attainment, measured by the school track at the age 14, using ordered probit models. We study whether the effect of living in single...
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We examine the effect of single motherhood on children's secondary school track choice using 12-year-old children drawn from the German Socio-Economic Panel. In line with previous studies for the U.S., the U.K. and Sweden, we find a negative correlation between single motherhood and children's...
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This study investigates the effect of parental unemployment on children’s school performance. We use individual level data for all children completing lower secondary school in Sweden in 1990 directly moving on to three years of upper secondary school. We control for family and individual...
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Using data from the Bicol region of the Phillipines, we examine why women are more educated than men in a rural, agricultural economy in which women are significantly less likely than men to participate in the labor market. We hypothesize that educational homogamy in the marriage market and...
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natives may be reallocating their labor supply into non-predominant Mexican occupations. An analysis of employment changes of … natives into different occupation groupings in response to an inflow of Mexican immigrants, confirms that natives' employment …
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