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Trends in the returns to social assimilation : earnings premiums among U.S. immigrants that marry natives
Furtado, Delia; Song, Tao - 2014
Previous studies show that immigrants married to natives earn higher wages than immigrants married to other immigrants. Using data from the 1980-2000 U.S. censuses and the 2005- 2010 American Community Surveys, we show that these wage premiums have increased over time. Our evidence suggests that...
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Can immigrants help women "have it all"? : immigrant labor and women's joint fertility and labor supply decisions
Furtado, Delia - 2014
This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high skilled US-born women in cities that have experienced larger...
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Fertility responses of high-skilled native women to immigrant inflows
Furtado, Delia - 2014
While there is debate regarding the magnitude of the impact, immigrant inflows are generally understood to depress wages and increase employment in immigrant-intensive sectors. In light of the over-representation of the foreign-born in the childcare industry, this paper examines whether...
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Does immigration improve quality of care in nursing homes?
Furtado, Delia; Ortega, Francesc - 2020
The growing healthcare needs of baby boomers require significant increases in the number or productivity of healthcare workers. This paper explores how immigrants may fill these gaps in nursing homes. First, we show that immigrant inflows are associated with reduced wages of lower skilled nurses...
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Spatial commuting patterns of German regional labour markets : a sustainability perspective
Tedeschi, Federico; Reggiani, Aura; Nijkamp, Peter - 2012
This paper aims to investigate the relationship between commuting and spatial labour market developments in the framework of sustainability issues. To do so, we propose, first, an exploratory investigation of the effects of inbound commuter flows on employment in regional labour markets in...
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Interethnic Marriage: A Choice between Ethnic and Educational Similarities
Furtado, Delia; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper examines the effects of education on intermarriage, and specifically whether the mechanisms through which education affects intermarriage differ by immigrant generation, age at arrival, and race. We consider three main paths through which education affects marriage choice. First,...
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Immigration and Innovation in European Regions
Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Institute - 2011
size, skills, and diversity of immigration on the innovativeness of host regions. For this purpose we construct a panel of …'s restaurants as a novel instrument for immigration. The results confirm that innovation is clearly a function of regio nal …
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Immigrant labor and work-family decisions of native-born women
Furtado, Delia - In: IZA World of Labor (2015) April, pp. 1-10
Many countries are reviewing immigration policy, focusing on wage and employment effects for workers whose jobs may be … threatened by immigration. Less attention is given to effects on prices of goods and services. The effect on childcare prices is … affected by the difficulty of combining work and family. New research suggests immigration lowers the cost of household …
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Immigration and Innovation in European Regions
Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
this paper we measure the impact of the size, skills, and diversity of immigration on the innovativeness of host regions … of McDonald's restaurants as a novel instrument for immigration. The results confirm that innovation is clearly a …
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A Meta-Analytic Assessment of the Effect of Immigration on Wages
Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
-economic phenomenon for many countries. Since the early 1980s, many studies have been undertaken of the impact of immigration on host … labour markets. Borjas (2003) noted that the estimated effect of immigration on the wage of native workers varies widely from … immigration on wages of native groups with similar skills appears rather robust. …
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