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Selective outmigration and the estimation of immigrants' earnings profiles
In: CESifo working paper series 4617
In: Labour markets
This chapter begins by documenting that temporary migrations are not only very common, but that outmigration of immigrants is selective both in terms of migrants' individual characteristics and their economic outcomes. We then examine the problems that arise when estimating immigrants' earnings profiles when outmigration is selective, and discuss the identifying assumptions needed to answer three different questions on immigrants' earnings careers. We show how better data can help to relax these assumptions, suggest appropriate estimators, and provide an illustration using simulated data. We finally provide an overview of existing papers that use different types of data to address selective outmigration when estimating immigrants' earnings profiles.
Estimating the effect of emigration from Poland on Polish wages
In: Study paper no. 43
Language proficiency and labour market performance of immigrants in the UK
In: Discussion paper series 156
This paper uses two recent UK surveys to investigate labour market performance, the determinants of language proficiency, and the effect of language on earnings and employment probabilities of non-white immigrants. Our results show that language acquisition, employment probabilities, as well as earnings differ widely across non-white immigrants, according to their ethnic origin. Language has a strong and positive effects on employment probabilities. Furthermore, lack of English fluency leads to substantial earnings losses of immigrants. While earnings of white and ethnic minority natives develop in a similar manner, there is a large earnings gap between these two groups, and ethnic minority immigrants. English fluency contributes considerably to reducing these differences. Addressing the problems of measurement error and unobserved heterogeneity in language variables, our results indicate that measurement error in the language variable leads to underestimation of the importance of language for employment probabilities and earnings in straightforward regressions. In comparison with results found for other countries, language proficiency seems to be more important for labour market outcomes of UK immigrants.
Temporary migration and the investment into human capital
In: EUI working papers
In: ECO 91/47
Out-migration, wealth constraints, and the quality of local amenities
In: Journal of development economics, Band 110, S. 52-63
ISSN: 0304-3878
World Affairs Online
Remittances and temporary migration
In: Journal of development economics, Band 92, Heft 1, S. 62-70
ISSN: 0304-3878
World Affairs Online
The optimal migration duration and activity choice after re-migration
In: Journal of development economics, Band 67, Heft 2, S. 351-372
ISSN: 0304-3878
If migrants return to their origin countries, two questions arise which are of immediate economic interest for both immigration and emigration country: what determines their optimal migration duration, and what are the activities migrants choose after a return. This paper utilises a unique survey data set which records activities of returned migrants. (DSE/DÜI)
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The career costs of children
In: Journal of political economy, Band 125, Heft 2, S. 293-337
"We estimate a dynamic life cycle model of labor supply, fertility, and savings, incorporating occupational choices, with specific wage paths and skill atrophy that vary over the career. This allows us to understand the trade-off between occupational choice and desired fertility, as well as sorting both into the labor market and across occupations. We quantify the life cycle career costs associated with children, how they decompose into loss of skills during interruptions, lost earnings opportunities, and selection into more child-friendly occupations. We analyze the long-run effects of policies that encourage fertility and show that they are considerably smaller than short-run effects." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Return migration, human capital accumulation and the brain drain
In: Journal of development economics, Band 95, Heft 1, S. 58-67
ISSN: 0304-3878
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Career progression and formal versus on-the-job training
In: Discussion paper series 6087
In: Labour economics