Return Migration, Investment in Children, and Intergenerational Mobility: Comparing Sons of Foreign- and Native-Born Fathers
In: The journal of human resources, Band 43, Heft 2, S. 299-324
ISSN: 1548-8004
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In: The journal of human resources, Band 43, Heft 2, S. 299-324
ISSN: 1548-8004
In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 3080
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Working paper
In: Oxford review of economic policy, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 325-339
ISSN: 1460-2121
In: The economic journal: the journal of the Royal Economic Society, Band 113, Heft 485, S. F1-F2
ISSN: 1468-0297
In: The journal of human resources, Band 43, Heft 3, S. 660-687
ISSN: 1548-8004
This paper evaluates the impact of three major expansions in leave coverage in Germany on the long-run education and labor market outcomes of children. Evaluation of three policy reforms as opposed to a single reform enables us to analyze whether the impact of paid leave differs from that of unpaid leave, and whether an expansion of a relatively short leave period is more beneficial to child development than an expansion of an already long leave period. Our empirical analysis combines two large administrative data sources on wages, unemployment, and school outcomes. We identify the causal impact of the reforms by comparing outcomes of children born shortly before and shortly after a change in maternity leave legislation, and therefore require substantially weaker assumptions for identification than existing studies. We find little support for the hypothesis that an expansion in maternity leave legislation improves children's outcomes. Given the precision of our estimates, we can statistically rule out the hypothesis that the expansion in paid leave from 2 to 6 (unpaid leave from 18 to 36) months raised wages (attendance at high track schools) by more than 0.3 % (0.1 %).
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In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 3074
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Working paper
In: The economic journal: the journal of the Royal Economic Society, Band 115, Heft 505, S. 551-578
ISSN: 1468-0297
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In: Oxford review of economic policy, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 462-484
ISSN: 1460-2121
In: The economic journal: the journal of the Royal Economic Society, Band 113, Heft 489, S. 695-717
ISSN: 1468-0297
In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy, Band 7, Heft 1
ISSN: 1935-1682
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In this paper we distinguish between three channels that determine attitudes to further immigration: labour market concerns, welfare concerns, and racial or cultural concerns. Our analysis is based on the British Social Attitudes Survey. A unique feature of the survey is that it includes questions on attitudes towards immigration from different origin countries, with populations differing in ethnic similarity to the resident population. It also contains sets of questions relating directly to the labour market, benefit expenditure and welfare concerns, and racial and cultural prejudice. Based on this unique data source, we specify and estimate a multiple factor model that allows comparison of the relative magnitude of association of attitudes to further immigration with the three channels, as well as comparison in responses across potential immigrant groups of different origin. Our results suggest that, overall, welfare concerns play a more important role in determination of attitudes to further immigration than labour market concerns, with their relative magnitude differing across potential emigration regions and characteristics of the respondent. In addition, we find strong evidence that racial or cultural prejudice is an important component to attitudes towards immigration; however, this is restricted to immigration from countries with ethnically different populations.
In: Studies in Empirical Economics Ser.
In: Oxford review of economic policy, Band 24, Heft 3, S. 477-494
ISSN: 1460-2121
In: The economic journal: the journal of the Royal Economic Society, Band 115, Heft 507, S. F297-F299
ISSN: 1468-0297