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Politics, Unemployment, and the Enforcement of Immigration Law
Makowsky, Michael D. - 2012
Immigration control-related audits and their resulting sanctions are not solely determined by impartial enforcement of laws and regulations. They are also determined by the incentives faced by vote-maximizing congressmen, agents acting on their behalf, and workers likely to compete with...
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The Effect of Attitudes Toward Migrants on Migrant Skill Composition
Avdiu, Besart - 2018
I investigate the effect of attitudes toward migrants on the average skill composition of immigrants in destination … countries. A model is presented showing that negative attitudes toward migrants can reduce the average skill composition. The … hypothesis, I use survey data on attitudes toward migrants as well as data on migrant stocks by education level and origin …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920757
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Estimating Immigrant Earnings Profiles When Migrations are Temporary
Dustmann, Christian - 2016
The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many – if not most – migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...
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The Labor Market Impact of Undocumented Immigrants : Job Creation vs. Job Competition
Albert, Christoph - 2017
This paper studies the labor market impact of documented and undocumented immigration in a model with search frictions and non-random hiring. Since they accept lower wages, firms obtain a higher match surplus from hiring immigrants rather than natives. Therefore, immigration results in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012949378
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Competition for Migrants in a Federation : Tax or Transfer Competition?
Koethenbuerger, Marko - 2012
The paper provides an equilibrium analysis of how countries compete for migrants. The type of competition (tax or …, countries compete in taxes for migrants. With asymmetric preferences, migration competition takes place in income support levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111835
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Genetic Distance and International Migrant Selection
Krieger, Tim - 2015
migration for low-skilled migrants. Results are robust to the inclusion of sending and destination country fixed effects …
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Productivity Response to a Contract Change
Jayaraman, Rajshri - 2014
This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change for tea pluckers in an Indian plantation. The contract, implemented at the end of a three-year cycle in which contracts are generally revised, was (a) the joint outcome of negotiations between twenty unions and plantations, (b)...
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Immigrants and Gender Roles : Assimilation vs. Culture
Blau, Francine D. - 2015
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women's behavior in the United States — looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor...
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A Collective Household Model of Time Allocation - a Comparison of Native Dutch and Immigrant Households in the Netherlands
Klaveren, Chris van - 2008
Although the number of immigrant households in the Netherlands is substantial, the labor supply choices of this group are usually neglected in empirical studies because these households are usually under-sampled. We use a stratified sample of Turkish, Surinamese/Antillean and Dutch households...
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Collective Labor Supply of Native Dutch and Immigrant Households in the Netherlands
Klaveren, Chris van; van Praag, B.M.S; Maassen van den … - 2021
We estimate a collective time allocation model, where Dutch, Surinamese/Antillean and Turkish households behave as if both spouses maximize a household utility function. We assume that paid labor and housework are the endogenous choice variables and furthermore consider household production....
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