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The missing market for work permits
Lokshin, Michael; Ravallion, Martin - 2019
Citizens have a right to accept any job offer in their country, but that right is not marketable or automatically extended to foreigners. Yet, some citizens have useful things to do if they could rent out their right-to-work, and there are foreigners who would value the new options for...
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The effect of immigrant concentration at school on natives’ achievement : does length of stay in the host country matter?
Bossavie, Laurent - 2018
Using a rich data set of primary school students, this paper estimates the effects of immigrant concentration in the classroom on the academic achievement of natives. In contrast with previous contributions, it exploits rare information on age-at-migration to estimate separate spillover effects...
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Do immigrants push natives towards safer jobs? : exposure to COVID-19 in the European Union
Bossavie, Laurent; Garrote Sanchez, Daniel; Makovec, Mattia - 2020
to control for potential unobservable factors that would lead migrants to self-select into more vulnerable occupations …
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Shoring up economic refugees : Venezuelan migrants in the Ecuadoran labor market
Olivieri, Sergio; Ortega, Francesc; Rivadeneira, Ana; … - 2020
, hosting around 10 percent of them. Little is known about the characteristics of these migrants and their labor market outcomes …
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The Selection of Migrants and Returnees : Evidence from Romania and Implications
Ambrosini, J. William - 2010
wage earning ability (skills) of migrants and returnees relative to non-migrants. This determines what is called 'selection …-migrant, migrants to specific countries and returnees the authors can construct measures of average selection across skills for each … receive higher migration premium. The authors find strong support for the idea that migrants in different skill groups move …
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Impact of international migration on labor supply in Nepal
Phadera, Lokendra - 2019
filling in the roles vacated by the migrants. In contrast, the income effect dominates the impact of migration on the left …
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The Long-Term Impacts of International Migration : Evidence from a Lottery
Gibson, John - 2015
migrants upgrading their education and changing their locations and occupations. This results in large, sustained benefits to … the migrants' immediate family, who have substantially higher consumption, durable asset ownership, savings, and dietary …
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Using courts to realize education rights : reflections from India and Indonesia : background paper to the 2018 World Development Report
Rosser, Andrew; Joshi, Anuradha - 2018
This paper examines the role of courts in promoting fulfillment of the right to education in developing country democracies, focusing on India and Indonesia-two countries that have experienced increased education rights litigation in recent years. The paper argues that this litigation has been...
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Size-dependent tax enforcement and compliance : global evidence and aggregate implications
Bachas, Pierre; Jaef, Roberto N. Fattal; Jensen, Anders - 2018
This paper studies the prevalence and consequences of size-dependent tax enforcement and compliance. The identification strategy uses the ranking of industries' average firm size in the United States as an instrument for the size ranking of the same industries in developing countries. Data on...
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Addressing the Enforcement Gap to Counter Crime : Part 1. Crime, Poverty and the Police
Gramckow, Heike P. - 2016
Crime and violence impede development and disproportionally impact poor people in many countries across the world. Though crime and violence represent serious problems in many countries, less-developed countries experience particular concentrations, especially those that are characterized by...
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