Immigrant Wage and Employment Assimilation: A Comparison of Methods We compare alternative methods for estimating immigrant wage and employment assimilation using unique panel data over 2001–2009 for a large, nationally-representative sample of immigrants. Previous assimilation estimates have been mainly based on crosssectional data and have therefore suffered from a range of potential biases. ...

Whether immigrants are positively or negatively self-selected is much disputed. Whereas most previous studies have addressed this question by comparing the wages of immigrants to those of U.S. natives, this analysis uses occupation to examine the skill level of immigrants. Data on the occupational distribution of individuals granted legal permanent residence in 1995 indicate that the proportion...

SIPP data are used to analyze the relative wealth position of Mexican immigrants in the United States. PRELIMINARY AND INCOMPLETE JEL: J61, G11, J10 ∗Deborah Cobb-Clark, SPEAR Centre, RSSS, Bldg. 9, ANU, Canberra, ACT 0200. Phone: (61)-2-6125-3267. Fax: (61)-2-6125-0182. E-mail: [email protected]. Vincent Hildebrand, Department of Economics, 363 York Hall, Glendon College, York Universi...

Emigration leads to finite changes in structure of production and sectors vanish because they cannot pay higher wages. Does emigration of one type of labour hurt the other non-emigrating type in this set up? We demonstrate various scenarios when real income of the emigrating and the non-emigrating type do not move together and in the process generalize some of the existing results in the litera...

This paper uses the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) to assess factors affecting the duration of unemployment and underemployment in Russia between 1994 and 1996. We examine four types of marginalised labour force participants, according to ILO guidelines and to responses from the RLMS questionnaire. We estimate duration models using non-parametric and parametric estimation techniq...

Abstract Between 2010 and 2020, the U.S. coal industry experienced a 50% drop in production, employment, active mines, driven by regulatory factors technological innovation alternative energy sources. We study impact of this transition on household wages, migration, home ownership affected communities. Compared to non-coal-producing, resource-rich counties, coal-producing counties experience 6%...

À partir des données issues du recensement général de la population 2014, nous analysons à l’échelle bassins vie, le lien entre migration résidentielle destination espaces ruraux et périurbains ségrégation socio-spatiale. Nos résultats montrent que les individus sont sensibles aux caractéristiques sociodémographiques voisina...

Most models of regional agglomeration are based on the NEG (New Economic Geography) model in which returns to scale are pecuniary. We investigate the implications for regional agglomeration of a "Marshallian" model in which returns to scale derive from technological externalities. Workers are assumed to have heterogeneous "home region" preferences. The model is designed to explain how "second n...

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 possibilities differs between immigrants and natives, then the static assimilation model might produce biased and unrealistic predictions of the relative employment probabilities of immigrants. ...

International migration is costly and initially only the middle class of the wealth distribution may have both the means and incentives to migrate, increasing inequality in the sending community. However, the migration networks formed lower the costs for future migrants, which can in turn lower inequality. This paper shows both theoretically and empirically that wealth has a nonlinear effect on...