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IZA Journal of Migration and IZA Journal of Labor and Development have merged to form the IZA Journal of Development and Migration. The archives of published articles in IZA Journal of Migration and IZA Journal of Labor and Development are available here.
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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...
IZA Journal of Development and Migration 2017 7:7
Published on: 14 July 2017
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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 ...
IZA Journal of Development and Migration 2017 7:8
Published on: 14 July 2017
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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...
IZA Journal of Development and Migration 2017 7:6
Published on: 29 June 2017
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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...
IZA Journal of Development and Migration 2017 7:5
Published on: 13 June 2017
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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...
IZA Journal of Development and Migration 2017 7:4
Published on: 30 May 2017
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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 ...
IZA Journal of Development and Migration 2017 7:3
Published on: 11 May 2017
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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...
IZA Journal of Development and Migration 2017 7:2
Published on: 28 April 2017
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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...
IZA Journal of Development and Migration 2017 7:1
Published on: 21 April 2017
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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...
IZA Journal of Migration 2017 6:5
Published on: 9 March 2017
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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...
IZA Journal of Migration 2017 6:4
Published on: 27 February 2017
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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 ...
IZA Journal of Migration 2017 6:3
Published on: 14 February 2017
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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...
IZA Journal of Migration 2017 6:2
Published on: 30 January 2017
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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...
IZA Journal of Migration 2017 6:1
Published on: 13 January 2017
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The slave trades out of Africa represent one of the most significant forced migration experiences in history. In this paper, I illustrate their long-term consequences on contemporaneous socio-economic outcomes...
IZA Journal of Migration 2016 5:24
Published on: 28 December 2016
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We examine the determinants of migrants’ choices of destination, employment, and remittances from one of the poorest marginal dry areas in Syria. Qualitative and econometric analysis of cross-sectional data in...
IZA Journal of Migration 2016 5:23
Published on: 8 December 2016
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During the African American Great Migration, millions of blacks left the Southern USA in favor of cities in the North. Despite the social and economic consequences of this migration, the question of its impact...
IZA Journal of Migration 2016 5:22
Published on: 28 November 2016
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This paper assesses the role of labour mobility in the adjustment to asymmetric economic shocks in the EU. After presenting a series of stylised facts of mobility in the EU, it assesses mobility as a channel o...
IZA Journal of Migration 2016 5:21
Published on: 10 November 2016
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This paper examines the wage gap between migrants and non-migrants in large cities in Vietnam. It finds that migrants receive substantially lower wages than non-migrants. The wage gap tends to be larger for ol...
IZA Journal of Migration 2016 5:20
Published on: 27 October 2016
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This paper empirically analyses the effect of naturalisation on on-the-job training (OJT) participation among first-generation immigrants in Germany. OJT is associated with improved labour market outcomes and ...
IZA Journal of Migration 2016 5:19
Published on: 13 October 2016
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Recent papers have found that often immigrants are overqualified relative to native-born workers when comparing an individual’s education to the ‘average’ education in their occupation. We show that these resu...
IZA Journal of Migration 2016 5:18
Published on: 27 September 2016
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At the height of the US civil rights movement in the mid-1960s, foreign-born persons were less than 1 % of the African-American population (Kent, Popul Bull, 62:4, 2007). Today, 16 % of America’s African diasp...
IZA Journal of Migration 2016 5:17
Published on: 12 September 2016
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Labour market integration is a social process suggesting that personality traits are relevant. This paper explores whether immigrants with a higher belief in their ability to control outcomes tend to be more l...
IZA Journal of Migration 2016 5:16
Published on: 26 August 2016
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This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination against immigrants. We build on an identification strategy proposed by Bartolucci (Ind Lab...
IZA Journal of Migration 2016 5:15
Published on: 11 August 2016
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Since the 1970s, economic restructuring and shifts in industries have morphed the occupational path of workers, curbing socioeconomic mobility for many—wages of African-American workers which have trended upwa...
IZA Journal of Migration 2016 5:14
Published on: 26 July 2016
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This paper investigates the dynamics of immigrants’ employment assimilation in comparison with the standard static assimilation model. When the effect of past employment experience on current employment possib...
IZA Journal of Migration 2016 5:13
Published on: 12 July 2016
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