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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
302 Gil S. Epstein
Avi Weiss
A Theory of Immigration Amnesties
This paper presents a first attempt at understanding some of the many issues involved in the granting of an amnesty to illegal immigrants. We consider government behavior with respect to allocations ...
(published as "The Why, When and How of Immigration Amnesties" in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (1), 285-316)
J61 J68 H59
301 Joachim R. Frick
Gert G. Wagner
Economic and Social Perspectives of Immigrant Children in Germany
Overall, children in Germany live in households with below average incomes; therefore social policies that address the vulnerable position of Germany’s children are necessary. These policies should ...
(published in: E. Currle and T. Wunderlich (eds.), Deutschland – ein Einwanderungsland? Rückblick, Bilanz und neue Fragen - Festschrift für Friedrich Heckmann, Stuttgart 2001)
J13 I30 I21
300 Alois Stutzer
Rafael Lalive
The Role of Social Work Norms in Job Searching and Subjective Well-Being
Social norms are usually neglected in economics because they are to a large extent enforced through non-market interactions and difficult to isolate empirically. In this paper, we offer a direct ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2004, 2 (4), 696-719)
I31 J64
299 Giorgio Brunello
Claudio Lucifora
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
The Wage Expectations of European College Students
Expected earnings and expected returns to education are seen by labor economists as a major determinant of educational attainment. In spite of this, the empirical knowledge about expectations and ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2004, 39 (4), 1116-1142)
J30
298 Pedro T. Pereira
Pedro S. Martins
Returns to Education and Wage Equations
We show why considering a number of education-dependent covariates in the wage equation decreases coefficient of education in the wage equation. We use a meta-analysis of results for Portugal to ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2004, 36 (6), 525-531)
C4 I2 J3
297 Jan C. van Ours
Justus Veenman
The Educational Attainment of Second Generation Immigrants in The Netherlands
Since the mid-1960’s the Netherlands has had an immigration surplus, mainly because of manpower recruitment from Turkey and Morocco and immigration from the former Dutch colony of Surinam. Immigrants ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2003, 16 (4), 739-753)
J15 J61
296 Helena Skyt Nielsen
Michael Rosholm
Nina Smith
Leif Husted
Intergenerational Transmissions and the School-to-Work Transition of 2nd Generation Immigrants
We analyse the extent of intergenerational transmission through parental capital, ethnic capital and neighbourhood effects on several aspects of the school-to-work transition of 2 nd generation ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2003, 16 (4), 755-786)
J61 J71
294 Štepán Jurajda
Estimating the Effect of Unemployment Insurance Compensation on the Labor Market Histories of Displaced Workers
In this paper, U.S. data on labor market histories of displaced workers are used to quantify the effect of Unemployment Insurance Compensation (UIC) on both unemployment and employment durations. ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2002, 108(2), 227-252)
C41 J63 J65
293 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Thomas F. Crossley
Gender, Comparative Advantage and Labor Market Activity in Immigrant Families
The family investment hypothesis predicts that credit-constrained immigrant families adopt a household strategy for financing post-migration human capital investment in which the partner with labor ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2004, 11 (3), 373-393)
J61 J22 D10
291 Regina T. Riphahn
Cohort Effects in the Educational Attainment of Second Generation Immigrants in Germany: An Analysis of Census Data
Even though second generation immigrants make up ever increasing population shares in industrialized countries we know little about their social integration and wellbeing. This study focuses on the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2003, 16 (4), 711-737)
I21 J24 J61
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