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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8753 Francisca M. Antman
Brian Duncan
Incentives to Identify: Racial Identity in the Age of Affirmative Action
It is almost universally assumed that race is an exogenously given trait that is not subject to change. But as race is most often self-reported by individuals who must weigh the costs and benefits of ...
(shorter version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97(3), 710-13)
J15, I28, Z13
8752 Stijn Baert
Frank Heiland
Sanders Korenman
Native-Immigrant Gaps in Educational and School-to-Work Transitions in the Second Generation: The Role of Gender and Ethnicity
We study how native-immigrant (second generation) differences in educational trajectories and school-to-work transitions vary by gender. Using longitudinal Belgian data and adjusting for family ...
(revised version published in: De Economist, 2016, 164, 159 - 186)
I24, J15, J16, J70, Z10, C35
8751 Abebe Shimeles
Growth and Poverty in Africa: Shifting Fortunes and New Perspectives
Growth has been high and widespread in the last decade in Africa. Whether this shift in Africa's fortune has impacted poverty has been a subject of controversy. This paper brings into focus recent ...
(part of this paper published as 'Poverty: Shifting Fortunes and New Perspectives' in: The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics, Vol. 1, Oxford University Press, 2015)
O12
8749 Merle Zwiers
Gideon Bolt
Maarten van Ham
Ronald van Kempen
Neighborhood Decline and the Economic Crisis
Neighborhood decline is a complex and multidimensional process. National and regional variation in economic and political structures (including variety in national welfare state arrangements), ...
(published in: Urban Geography, 2016, 37 (5), 665 - 584)
I32, I38, O18, R23
8748 Santiago Budría
Pablo Swedberg
The Impact of Multilingualism on Spanish Language Acquisition among Immigrants in Spain
This article uses micro-data from the Spanish National Immigrant Survey to analyze the acquisition of Spanish language skills for immigrants in Spain. The motivation of the paper is threefold. ...
(published as 'The impact of multilingualism on host language acquisition' in: Empirica, 2019, 46, 741 - 766)
J15, J24, J61
8747 Caglar Ozden
Christopher Parsons
On the Economic Geography of International Migration
We exploit the bilateral and skill dimensions from recent data sets of international migration to test for the existence of Zipf's and Gibrat's Laws in the context of aggregate and high-skilled ...
(published in World Economy 2015, 39 (4), 478–495 )
F22, J61, O15
8746 Erhan Artuc
Frédéric Docquier
Caglar Ozden
Christopher Parsons
A Global Assessment of Human Capital Mobility: The Role of Non-OECD Destinations
Discussions of high-skilled mobility typically evoke migration patterns from poorer to wealthier countries, which ignore movements to and between developing countries. This paper presents, for the ...
(published in: World Development, 2015, 65, 6 - 26)
F22, J61, O15
8745 Calogero Carletto
Jennica Larrison
Caglar Ozden
Informing Migration Policies: A Data Primer
Researchers in many fields, such as demography, economics, and sociology, have established various data collection methodologies and principles to answer a range of academic and policy questions on ...
(published in: R. E. B. Lucas (ed.), International Handbook on Migration and Economic Development, Elgar, 2014, 9–41 )
F22, J61, O15
8744 Pia M. Orrenius
Madeline Zavodny
The Impact of Temporary Protected Status on Immigrants' Labor Market Outcomes
The United States currently provides Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to more than 300,000 immigrants from selected countries. TPS is typically granted if dangerous conditions prevail in the home ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2015, 105, 576-580)
J15, J31, J61
8743 Anzelika Zaiceva
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Migration and the Demographic Shift
This chapter connects population aging with international migration. After documenting the trends for both, we review the supply-push and demand-pull determinants of migration, focusing particularly ...
(substantially revised version published in: Piggott, J. and A. Woodland (Eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging, Elsevier, North Holland, 2016, Vol. 1A, Ch. 3, 119-177.)
F22, F66, J11, J14, J61, O15
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