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A Theory of Dual Job Search and Sex-Based Occupational Clustering
Benson, Alan - 2014
I present a theory of couples' job search whereby women sort into lower-paying geographically-dispersed occupations due to expectations of future spouses' geographically-clustered occupations and (thereby) inability to relocate for work. Results confirm men segregate into...
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How Can Preferences for Same-Trait Marriage Increase Investment in Education?
Hakak, Lorena - 2020
I model how agents' marriage decisions and schooling investments relate to cultural and religious intragroup preferences. Men and women's incentives to acquire education and marry change depending on their preferences to marry within their own cultural traits, as marital gains are reinforced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012847234
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Labour market status and migration dynamics
Bijwaard, Govert - 2009
country after a period of no-income. Employment characteristics and the country of origin play an important role in explaining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003908641
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Labour Market Status and Migration Dynamics
Bijwaard, Govert E. - 2009
country after a period of no-income. Employment characteristics and the country of origin play an important role in explaining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154986
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Dynamic effects of co-ethnic networks on immigrants' economic success
Battisti, Michele; Peri, Giovanni; Romiti, Agnese - 2018
This paper investigates how the size of co-ethnic networks at the time of arrival affect the economic success of immigrants in Germany. Applying panel analysis with a large set of fixed effects and controls, we isolate the association between initial network size and long-run immigrant outcomes....
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Local signals and the returns to foreign education
Tani, Massimiliano - 2015
This paper exploits a quasi-experiment to shed light on whether the wage penalty experienced by migrants reflects poor schooling quality in the country of education or employers' discrimination in the host country. The quasi-experiment is the possibility for migrants to undertake an official...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428042
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Heterogeneous technology diffusion and ricardian trade patterns
Kerr, William R. - 2016
Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel estimates connecting country-industry productivity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011568775
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Less welfare or fewer foreigners? : immigrant inflows and public opinion towards redistribution and migration policy
Murard, Elie - 2017
immigration policy over the last decade. Unlike previous studies, I analyze the evolution over time of these two types of … essentially on how immigration is perceived to affect wages and net welfare benefits. Specifically, I find that, when immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664508
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Immigration and the slope of the labor demand curve : the role of firm heterogeneity in a model of regional labor markets
Ariu, Andrea; Müller, Tobias; Nguyen, Tuan - 2023
natives' wages, and that skilled immigration can actually increase them. We develop a model with regional labor markets and … migrants are perfect substitutes within a firm. In this setting, a skilled labor supply shock due to immigration has two … wage adjustments. Second, the average native's wage can be partially sheltered from the negative effect of immigration …
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Immigration, monopsony and the distribution of firm pay
Amior, Michael; Stuhler, Jan - 2023
in wage premia and employment across the firm pay distribution, during a large immigration wave in Germany. These adverse … demand higher wages. This monopsonistic trade-off can lead to large negative effects on native employment, which exceed those …
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