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"In this paper, we examine net emigration from Mexico over the period 1960 to 2000. The data are consistent with labor-supply shocks having made a substantial contribution to Mexican emigration, accounting for one third of Mexican labor flows to the U.S. over the last 25 years of the 20th...
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Putnam (1995)'s seminal work was one of the first to describe the decline of social capital in the US after the 1960s, a period that saw a large increase in the flow of immigrants into the US. Using the Volunteer Supplement of the September Sample of the Current Population Survey (CPS) between...
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Die Integration von Migranten im Aufnahmeland ist stark mit deren Erfolg am Arbeitsmarkt verbunden. Für letzteres … kulturellen Werten auf die Arbeitsmarktpartizipation von Migranten bisher jedoch kaum untersucht. Daher analysiert dieses Papier … den Zusammenhang zwischen kollektivistischen Werten im Herkunftsland und der Arbeitsmarktsituation von Migranten der …
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selection and the importance of migrant selection to labor force quality. Chapter 2 quantifies non-pecuniary migration costs … that are incurred due to selective migration along cultural traits. Chapter 3 discusses whether early performance …
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the primary focus is on international migration, reference is made to internal migration and return migration. The … favorable selectivity is more intense the greater the out-of-pocket (direct) costs of migration and return migration, the … greater the effect of the higher level of ability on lowering the costs of migration, and the smaller the relative skill …
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We project the religious composition of the United States to 2043, considering fertility differences, migration …, intergenerational religious transmission and conversion by 11 ethnoreligious groups. If fertility and migration trends continue …
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This paper introduces the concept of “climate matching” as a driver of migration and establishes several new results … countries. Third, we exploit variation in the long-run change in average US climate from 1900 to 2019 and find that migration …. Finally, we project how climate change shapes the geography of US population growth by altering migration patterns, both …
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This paper introduces the concept of "climate matching" as a driver of migration and establishes several new results … countries. Third, we exploit variation in the long-run change in average US climate from 1900 to 2019 and find that migration …. Finally, we project how climate change shapes the geography of US population growth by altering migration patterns, both …
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Using newly digitized Canada-Vermont border crossing records from the early twentieth century, this paper identifies key factors that may explain differences in how female and male migrants sort by human capital across destinations. Earnings maximization largely explains sorting patterns among...
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