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No.
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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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3568
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
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The Economics of Language: An Introduction and Overview
This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of ...
(Julian Simon Lecture IV, IZA, 2008 and published in: Terrance Wiley, Jin Sook Lee and Russell Rumberger (eds.),The Education of Language Minority Immigrants in the United States, Bristol, 2009, 72-91)
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J15, J24, J31, J61
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3567
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Adama
Konseiga
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Family Migration: A Vehicle of Child Morbidity in the Informal Settlements of Nairobi City, Kenya?
Parental migration is often found to be negatively correlated with child health in Africa, yet the causal mechanisms are poorly understood. The paper uses a dataset that provides information from the ...
(published in: A. de Sherbinin, Rahman, A. Barbieri, J.C. Fotso, Y. Zhu (eds.), Urban Population-Development-Environment Dynamics in the Developing World: Case Studies and Lessons Learned. Paris: CICRED 2009)
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C31, D13, I12, R23
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3566
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Erkki
Koskela
Ronnie
Schöb
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Outsourcing of Unionized Firms and the Impact of Labor Market Policy Reforms
This paper shows that outsourcing of parts of workforce in unionized firms leads to wage moderation both in the case of strategic and flexible outsourcing and as long as the share of the outsourced ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2010, 18 (4), 682–695)
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J41, J51, H22
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3565
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James
J.
Heckman
Sergio
Urzua
Edward
Vytlacil
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Instrumental Variables in Models with Multiple Outcomes: The General Unordered Case
This paper develops the method of local instrumental variables for models with multiple, unordered treatments when treatment choice is determined by a nonparametric version of the multinomial choice ...
(published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2008, 91-92, 9-74)
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C31
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3564
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Guillermina
Jasso
Mark
R.
Rosenzweig
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Selection Criteria and the Skill Composition of Immigrants: A Comparative Analysis of Australian and U.S. Employment Immigration
This paper uses survey data on employment immigrants in Australia and the United States to identify the main determinants of the size and skill composition of employment immigrants to developed ...
(published in: Jagdish Bhagwati and Gordon H. Hanson (eds.), Skilled Migration Today: Phenomenon, Prospects, Problems, Policies. New York: Oxford, 2009)
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F22, J31, J61, J68, O15
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3563
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Paul
W.
Miller
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The "Negative" Assimilation of Immigrants: A Special Case
Research on the economic or labor market assimilation of immigrants has to date focused on the degree of improvement in their economic status with duration in the destination. This pattern has been ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2011, 64 (3), 502-525)
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J61, J31, F22
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3562
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Juan
D.
Barón
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
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Occupational Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap in Private- and Public-Sector Employment: A Distributional Analysis
We use HILDA data from 2001 - 2006 to analyse the source of the gender wage gap across public- and private-sector wage distributions in Australia. We are particularly interested in the role of gender ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2010, 86 (273), 227 - 246)
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J31, J70, J24
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3561
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Torbjørn
Haegeland
Oddbjørn
Raaum
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
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Pennies from Heaven? Using Exogeneous Tax Variation to Identify Effects of School Resources on Pupil Achievements
Despite important policy implications associated with the allocation of education resources, evidence on the effectiveness of school inputs remains inconclusive. In part, this is due to endogenous ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31 (5), 601-614)
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I21, I28, J00
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3560
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Martin
Kahanec
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality
Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative ...
(substantially revised version published as 'How Skilled Immigration May Improve Economic Equality' in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2014, 3:2. )
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D33, E25, F22, J15, J61, O15
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3559
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Michael
Lechner
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Long-Run Labour Market Effects of Individual Sports Activities
This microeconometric study analyzes the effects of individual leisure sports participation on long-term labour market variables, on socio-demographic as well as on health and subjective well-being ...
(published as 'Long-run labour market and health effects of individual sports activities' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2009, 28 (4), 839 - 854)
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I12, I18, J24, L83, C21
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