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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