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The effects of cash transfers on adult labor market outcomes

The basic economic model of labor supply has a very clear prediction of what we should expect when an adult receives an unexpected cash windfall: they should work less and earn less. This intuition underlies c...

Authors: Sarah Baird, David McKenzie and Berk Özler

Word to the mother(tongue): language access and Medicaid for Limited English Proficient migrants

Limited language proficiency among migrants has been shown to limit migrants from various aspects of everyday life, from the labor market to government services. In the USA, language access laws have been enac...

Authors: Wayne Liou

Enforcement of labor regulations and job flows: evidence from Brazilian cities

The frequency of labor inspections in Brazil increased in the late 1990s. In the years that followed, between 2003 and 2007, formal employment expanded significantly in the country. This paper examines whether...

Authors: Ana Abras, Rita K. Almeida, Pedro Carneiro and Carlos Henrique L. Corseuil

Labor market mobility and the early-career outcomes of immigrant men

We examine the role of between- and within-firm mobility in the early-career outcomes of immigrant men. Among Canadian workers with less than 10 years of potential experience, we find that visible minority imm...

Authors: Mohsen Javdani and Andrew McGee

First fired, first hired? Business cycles and immigrant labor market transitions

Using individual-level Current Population Survey (CPS) data matched across adjacent months from 1996 to 2013, this paper examines immigrant-native differentials in labor market transitions to changes in the bu...

Authors: Huanan Xu

The effect of immigration shocks on native fertility outcomes: evidence from a natural experiment

This paper investigates whether immigration shocks have a causal effect on native fertility patterns. It uses a natural experiment, exploiting the large, unexpected and localised immigration of Cuban nationals...

Authors: Kelvin K. C. Seah

Comparing retrospective and panel data collection methods to assess labor market dynamics

There is potential for measurement problems in both retrospective and panel microdata. In this paper, we compare results on basic indicators related to labor markets and their dynamics from retrospective and p...

Authors: Ragui Assaad, Caroline Krafft and Shaimaa Yassin

Gender gaps in the path to adulthood for young females and males in six African countries from the 1990s to the 2010s

In this paper, we study on a comparative basis the school-to-work transition of young women and young men in six countries in sub-Saharan Africa, and we examine how this has evolved over recent years, based on...

Authors: Jane Mariara, Andy McKay, Andy Newell and Cinzia Rienzo

Transnational social mobility of minorities: a comparative analysis of 14 immigrant minority groups

There is extensive scholarship on the condition of being a minority in one’s home country and vast literature on the experience of immigrants in host countries. However, almost no attention has been paid to th...

Authors: Elyakim Kislev

Correlates of business survival: empirical evidence on youth-owned micro and small enterprises in Urban Ethiopia

This paper investigates the effects of person-, firm-, industry-, and business strategy-specific characteristics on the survival of youth-owned urban micro and small enterprises in Ethiopia. It employs nonpara...

Authors: Tasssew Woldehanna, Wolday Amha and Manex B. Yonis

Jobs for Africa’s expanding youth cohort: a stocktaking of employment prospects and policy interventions

Youth unemployment and underemployment are serious concerns in sub-Saharan Africa, especially given the region’s young population. The barriers young people face stem both from skills deficiencies and from wea...

Authors: Gordon Betcherman and Themrise Khan

Systematic measurement error in self-reported health: is anchoring vignettes the way out?

This paper studies systematic reporting heterogeneity in self-assessed health in India using World Health Survey (WHS)-SAGE survey that has subjective assessments on own health and hypothetical vignettes as we...

Authors: Aparajita Dasgupta

Just like a woman? New comparative evidence on the gender income gap across Eastern Europe and Central Asia

I examine the incidence and determinants of the gender income gap in Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Serbia, Tajikistan, and Ukraine using recent household data based on an identical survey instrument across c...

Authors: Niels-Hugo Blunch

Mixed effects of remittances on child education

We exploit the size of the 2010 Ecuadorian Census to estimate the effect of remittances on secondary school enrollment across four key dimensions: gender, household wealth, rural vs. urban, and family migratio...

Authors: José R. Bucheli, Alok K. Bohara and Matías Fontenla

Land tenure policy and off-farm employment in rural China

Using the data from the three waves (1995, 2002, and 2008) of the Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP), this paper investigates the impact of land tenure security on farmers’ labor market outcomes in rural ...

Authors: Hongqin Chang, Ping Ai and Yuan Li

Changing wage structure in India in the post-reform era: 1993–2011

This paper documents the changing structure of wages in India over the post-reform era, the roughly two-decade period since 1993. To investigate the factors underlying these changes, a supply-demand framework ...

Authors: Hanan G. Jacoby and Basab Dasgupta

Does it matter if immigrants work in jobs related to their education?

A common finding throughout the Canadian immigration literature is that, despite having high levels of education, recent immigrants endure substantial earnings disadvantages upon arrival that persist throughou...

Authors: Jason Dean

The impact of refugee experiences on education: evidence from Burundi

Previous studies suggest that displacement is one of the channels through which conflict impacts schooling outcomes. However, there is scarce evidence on this impact for those who are displaced internationally...

Authors: Sonja Fransen, Carlos Vargas-Silva and Melissa Siegel

Liberalization of European migration and the immigration of skilled people to Sweden

Migration policies can have a strong impact on the selection of immigrants, who in turn can affect the host country’s innovation development. This paper examines the effects of the liberalization of migration ...

Authors: Olof Ejermo and Yannu Zheng

Reallocating children’s time: coping strategies after the 2010 Haiti earthquake

This paper estimates the impact of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on the household decision about children’s time allocation. Using original data and objective geological measures, we exploit the fact that the eart...

Authors: Rafael Novella and Claire Zanuso

What makes you go back home? Determinants of the duration of migration of Mexican immigrants in the United States

This paper examines the optimal migration duration of Mexican immigrants in the USA using individual-level data from the Mexican Migration Project (MMP). A simple theoretical model rationalizes the decision of...

Authors: Carmen E. Carrión-Flores

Acquisition of permanent residence by temporary foreign workers in Canada: a panel study of labour market outcomes before and after the status transition

Using a unique administrative dataset, this study investigates the employment and earnings trajectories of temporary foreign workers (TFWs) during the years surrounding their acquisition of permanent residence...

Authors: Wen Ci, Feng Hou and René Morissette

Do employers in Myanmar prefer workers who accumulated skills in more advanced countries? Evidence from a field experiment

I conducted an audit study in Yangon, Myanmar, to examine the effects of foreign labor market experience on employment outcomes in the Myanmar labor market focusing on three skilled occupation groups—software ...

Authors: Saw Htay Wah

The issue of immigrants in Italy: a rational model of immigration management by Italian municipalities

This paper aims to analyze the increasing issue of overcongestion affecting the immigration hosting facilities of many Italian municipalities, as well as the heterogeneity in immigration regulatory behavior em...

Authors: Marco Baudino

Intergenerational mobility in Korea

This study investigates intergenerational earnings mobility in Korea for sons born between 1958 and 1973 and compares Korea’s mobility to that of other nations. It uses data from the Korea Labor and Income Pan...

Authors: Soobin Kim

Cognitive functioning among poor elderly persons: evidence from Peru

The recent emergence and expansion of non-contributory pension programmes across low- and middle-income countries responds and contributes to a larger attention towards the population of elderly individuals in...

Authors: Rafael Novella and Javier Olivera

Correction to: The impact of EU and non-EU immigration on British wages

In the original version of this article (Nickell & Saleheen, 2017), published on 11 October 2017, there is an error in the “Country of Birth” section in Appendix 1. In this Correction the incorrect and correct ve...

Authors: Stephen Nickell and Jumana Saleheen

Violence and migration: evidence from Mexico’s drug war

The effect of violence on people’s residential choice remains a debated topic in the literature on crime and conflict. We examine the case of the drug war in Mexico, which dramatically increased the number of ...

Authors: Sukanya Basu and Sarah Pearlman

Turkish migration to Europe: a modified gravity model analysis

This study specifies and applies a gravity model to provide empirical evidence on determinants of emigration from Turkey to 31 destination European countries over the period between 1960 and 2013. Results unde...

Authors: Dinçer Dedeoğlu and H. Deniz Genç

Correction to: immigration and the rate of population mixing: explorations with a stylized model

Authors: Frank Trevor Denton and Byron Grant Spencer

The impact of EU and Non-EU immigration on British wages

There is a consensus among academics that immigration has little or no effect on native British wages, but these studies have not refined their analysis by occupations. Our contribution is to extend the litera...

Authors: Stephen Nickell and Jumana Saleheen

Illegal immigration and media exposure: evidence on individual attitudes

Illegal immigration has been the focus of much debate in receiving countries, but little is known about the drivers of individual attitudes towards illegal immigrants. To study this question, we use the CCES s...

Authors: Giovanni Facchini, Anna Maria Mayda and Riccardo Puglisi

Immigration and the rate of population mixing: explorations with a stylized model

The integration or mixing of immigrants with non-immigrants is an important issue in many countries. There are various forms of mixing. We consider here cross-parenting, the bearing of children with one immigr...

Authors: Frank Trevor Denton and Byron Grant Spencer

The impact of host language proficiency across the immigrants’ earning distribution in Spain

This paper explores the impact of Spanish language proficiency on immigrant earnings in Spain using an instrumental variable quantile regression approach. The impact is on average roughly 17.2% but varies subs...

Authors: Santiago Budría, Carlos Martinez de Ibarreta and Pablo Swedberg

Erratum to: How do migrants save? Evidence from the British household panel survey on temporary and permanent migrants versus natives

Authors: Giuseppe De Arcangelis and Majlinda Joxhe

Measuring links between labor monopsony and the gender pay gap in Brazil

This paper focuses on gender differences in job mobility and earnings for workers in Brazil. Monopsony theory suggests a link between the wage elasticity of labor supply and wage penalties. Should one group of...

Authors: Brandon Vick

Can public works programs reduce youth crime? Evidence from Papua New Guinea’s Urban Youth Employment Project

Crime rates in Papua New Guinea’s capital city of Port Moresby are among the highest in the world. Few youth work, and good jobs are scarce. In 2013, the National Capital District Commission partnered with the...

Authors: Oleksiy Ivaschenko, Darian Naidoo, David Newhouse and Sonya Sultan

Household labor supply and intermarriage of immigrants: differences by gender

Intermarriage between a native and immigrant can affect the household’s supply of labor hours. Spouse selectivity on the basis of human capital, distribution of bargaining power, and labor supply coordination ...

Authors: Sukanya Basu

The effect of education on teenage fertility: causal evidence for Argentina

This is the first study exploring the causal effect of education on teenage fertility in Argentina. We exploit an exogenous variation in education from the staggered implementation of the 1993 reform, which in...

Authors: María Laura Alzúa and Cecilia Velázquez

Migrating out of a crowded labor market: evidence from Egypt

We analyze the determinants of emigration at the individual and household level, using three waves of the Egyptian labor market panel survey (ELMPS) covering the 1998–2012 period. Exploiting the panel structur...

Authors: Anda David and Joachim Jarreau

International students, immigration and earnings growth: the effect of a pre-immigration host-country university education

While destination-country education provides many potential advantages for immigrants, empirical studies in Australia, Canada and the USA have produced mixed results on the labour outcomes of immigrants who ar...

Authors: Feng Hou and Yuqian Lu

Factors influencing migration of female workers: a case of Bangladesh

Unemployment and low wages prevailing in the domestic market pushes female workers to look for better employment abroad. Investment in the shape of remittance further builds human capital, financial capital, a...

Authors: Humera Sultana and Ambreen Fatima

Staying in the cities or returning home? An analysis of the rural-urban migration behavior in Vietnam

This paper investigates the migration behavior of rural-urban migrants within Vietnam. It focuses on the length and intensity of migration and its respective determinants. The analysis uses panel data of 2200 ...

Authors: Loc Duc Nguyen, Ulrike Grote and Rasadhika Sharma

Ethnic identity and scholastic effort: a multifaceted approach

When one analyses the influence of social identity on scholastic effort, ethnic identity largely contributes to determine it. In this paper, ethnic identity is meant as the attachment to one’s cultural heritag...

Authors: Giuseppina Autiero

Age at immigration matters for labor market integration—the Swedish example

This paper analyses how age at immigration to Sweden and getting a first foothold in the labor market is related. We estimate hazard rate models using registry data on all persons who arrived in each of the ye...

Authors: Bjorn Anders Gustafsson, Hanna Mac Innes and Torun Österberg

Migration, entrepreneurship and development: critical questions

This paper poses and answers a number of critical questions about the relationship between migration and entrepreneurship in the process of economic development. In doing so, we show that the standard policy r...

Authors: Wim Naudé, Melissa Siegel and Katrin Marchand

Is the lower return to immigrants’ foreign schooling a postarrival problem in Canada?

Using the 2006 Canadian Census, this paper investigates the lower return to immigrants’ foreign education credentials after adjusting for their occupational matching in hosting labor markets. We develop two co...

Authors: Yigit Aydede and Atul Dar

Prior host-country work experience and immigrant labor market outcomes: evidence from Canada

Recent changes to immigration selection policies favor skilled workers with prior work experience in the immigrant host country. Using unique administrative tax data for Canada, we estimate earnings equations ...

Authors: Manish Pandey and James Townsend

Gender and racial differences in peer effects of limited English students: a story of language or ethnicity?

There is a perception among native born parents in the USA that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina, there has been a signi...

Authors: Timothy M. Diette and Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

Education, job insecurity and the within country migration of couples

We consider the migration movements of power couples (couples where both members have at least a college degree), half-power and no-power couples within Australia. We explicitly allow for potential association...

Authors: Francesco Mariotti, Karen Mumford and Yolanda Pena-Boquete