[colombiamigra] Fw: [nep-mig] 2013-06-24, 9 papers
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NEP: New Economics Papers
Economics of Human Migration
Edited by: Yuji Tamura
Australian National University
Issue date: 2013-06-24
Papers: 9
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In this issue we have:
1. The Shadow Value of Legal Status--A Hedonic Analysis of the Earnings
of U.S. Farm Workers
Wang, Sun Ling; Carroll, Daniel; Nehring, Richard; McGath, Christopher
2. Are You Unhappy Having Minority Co-Workers?
Haile, Getinet Astatike
3. Do immigrants take or create residents’ jobs? Quasi-experimental
evidence from Switzerland
Christoph Basten; Michael Siegenthaler
4. Migration Decisions within the Job Search Framework: Implications
for Understanding the Resource Curse
Niman, Ekaterina; Deaton, B. James; Grogan, Louise
5. Local Food Systems, Ethnic Entrepreneurs, and Social Networks
Hightower, Lisa S.; Brennan, Mark A.
6. Earnings Growth of Mexican Immigrants: New versus Traditional
Destinations
Kaushal, Neeraj; Shang, Ce
7. Benefits of Education at the Intensive Margin: Childhood Academic
Performance and Adult Outcomes among American Immigrants
Deniz Gevrek; Z. Eylem Gevrek; Cahit Guven
8. Interregional migration and thresholds: evidence in Spain
Clemente, Jesús; Larramona, Gemma; Olmos, Lorena
9. WAS CHINA’S RATE OF POVERTY REDUCTION EVEN FASTER THAN ROUTINELY
ASSUMED? ACCOUNTING FOR THE EFFECTS OF MIGRATION
Deininger, Klaus W.; Giles, John; Jin, Songqing; Wang, Hui
Contents.
1. The Shadow Value of Legal Status--A Hedonic Analysis of the Earnings
of U.S. Farm Workers
Date: 2013
By: Wang, Sun Ling
Carroll, Daniel
Nehring, Richard
McGath, Christopher
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea13:149866&r=mig
The purpose of this study is to estimate the shadow price of the legal status
of farm workers. A hedonic function in terms of farm work experience, gender,
education level, language skill, and legal status is estimated with control
variables for employer type, farm work type, as well as other geographical and
time variables. The data is drawn from the National Agricultural Workers Survey
(NAWS). The preliminary results show that while legal status did contribute
significantly to the wage differences it is not the major factor. After taking
account of the composition shift in demographic characteristics, the quality
adjusted labor prices still doubled in the past two decades.
Keywords: Farm worker, U.S. agriculture, undocumented labor, legal status,
hedonic analysis, Agricultural and Food Policy, Labor and Human Capital, J31,
J43,
2. Are You Unhappy Having Minority Co-Workers?
Date: 2013-05
By: Haile, Getinet Astatike (University of Nottingham)
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp7423&r=mig
This paper attempts to establish empirically whether natives' job satisfaction
is adversely affected by having minority co-worker(s). The paper uses
nationally representative linked employer-employee data and eight different
facets of job satisfaction. Measuring minority co-worker status at the
workplace- and occupation-level and employing alternative econometric
estimators; the paper finds that on average natives' experience a reduction in
job satisfaction due to having minority co-worker(s). The effect found is
larger if the co-worker-ship is at the occupation-level.
Keywords: discrimination, job-related well-being, linked employer-employee
data, Britain
JEL: J7
3. Do immigrants take or create residents’ jobs? Quasi-experimental
evidence from Switzerland
Date: 2013-05
By: Christoph Basten (KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Michael Siegenthaler (KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:kof:wpskof:13-335&r=mig
We estimate the causal effect of immigration on the labor market outcomes of
resident employees in Switzerland, whose foreign labor force has increased by
32.8% in the last decade. To address endogeneity of immigration into different
labor market cells, we develop new variants of the shift-share instrument,
tailored for small-open economies, that exploit only that part in the variation
of immigration which can be explained by migration push-factors in the source
countries. We find that immigration has reduced unemployment of residents and
has enabled them to fill more demanding jobs, while it had no adverse effect on
wages and employment.
Keywords: Immigration, native employment, labor shortage, shift-share
instrument
JEL: F22
4. Migration Decisions within the Job Search Framework: Implications
for Understanding the Resource Curse
Date: 2013
By: Niman, Ekaterina
Deaton, B. James
Grogan, Louise
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea13:150359&r=mig
Keywords: Labor and Human Capital, Research and Development/Tech
Change/Emerging Technologies,
5. Local Food Systems, Ethnic Entrepreneurs, and Social Networks
Date: 2013-05
By: Hightower, Lisa S.
Brennan, Mark A.
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea13:149696&r=mig
African immigrants in the United States (U.S.) experience immense challenges in
the form of poverty, unemployment, and underemployment. Limited English
language proficiency often restricts African immigrants to low-paying,
unskilled positions. Ethnic entrepreneurship in the form of small-scale farming
provides some African immigrants with an alternative to mainstream employment.
Key to the success of many African immigrants is participation in beginning
farmer programs. These programs operate as social networks, connecting
immigrant farmers to training, farming resources, and members of the local
community who provide access to additional resources and markets. Drawing from
social capital theory, this mixed methods study investigates economic outcomes
and social capital development within immigrant farmer programs. Immigrant
farmer programs are analyzed as social networks that connect immigrants to
technical training, farming resources, and community
members who can provide access to markets. Data were collected through a
survey of 112 agricultural educators working with immigrant farming programs
across the United States. Data were also collected through case studies of
programs in Ohio and Virginia. Bivariate correlation tests found the following
agricultural training topics were significantly associated with economic
outcomes, specifically training on farm equipment use, organic certification,
and pest management. Ten marketing training topics were associated with
economic outcomes, including business management, identifying markets, and
introduction to direct markets. Social network ties were also associated with
economic outcomes. These relationships were with the following organizations:
farmers markets, community-supported organizations, the Extension Service,
local farm supply stores, restaurants, and the Farm Bureau. Multiple regression
tests found that 24.8% of the variance in economic
outcomes could be accounted for by social network development, market
training, and agricultural training.
Keywords: Ethnic entrepreneurship, social capital, social networks, immigrant
farmers, African immigrants, local food systems, Agribusiness,
Community/Rural/Urban Development, Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession,
6. Earnings Growth of Mexican Immigrants: New versus Traditional
Destinations
Date: 2013-05
By: Kaushal, Neeraj (Columbia University)
Shang, Ce (University of Illinois at Chicago)
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp7427&r=mig
We study the earnings of Mexican immigrants in their traditional and newer
destinations in the US. Analysis based on longitudinal data suggests that
during 2001-2009, the real wage of Mexican immigrants increased 1-2% a year at
the traditional destinations, but remained mostly statistically insignificant
at the newer destinations. Mexicans at the traditional destinations exhibited
greater residential stability: internal migration, non-follow up in the
longitudinal data, and predicted return migration were higher among immigrants
at the newer destinations than among immigrants at the traditional
destinations. Predicted return migration was found to be selective on past
earnings among men, but not among women. For men, a 10 percentage point
increase in predicted probability of return migration was associated with a
0.3-0.5% lower wage in the year prior to return.
Keywords: Mexican immigrants, selection, earning assimilation, geographic
dispersion, return migration
JEL: J61
7. Benefits of Education at the Intensive Margin: Childhood Academic
Performance and Adult Outcomes among American Immigrants
Date: 2013-06-08
By: Deniz Gevrek (Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, 6300 Ocean Drive,
Corpus Christi, TX 78412 and IZA, Bonn, Germany)
Z. Eylem Gevrek (Department of Economics, University of Konstanz, Germany)
Cahit Guven (Deakin University, Victoria 125, Australia)
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:knz:dpteco:1311&r=mig
Using the Children of the Immigrants Longitudinal Study from the United States,
this paper examines the association between schooling at the intensive margin
and adult outcomes among first- and second-generation American immigrants.
Schooling at the intensive margin is measured by reading and math scores in
middle school and by GPA scores in both middle and high school. We find that
measures of academic performance predict pecuniary and nonpecuniary adult
outcomes. We also find that academic performance in high school relative to
middle school is important in explaining adult socioeconomic outcomes.
Immigrants with higher GPAs in high school compared to middle school have more
schooling, are in better health, are less likely to commit crime, and have
higher expectations regarding future job prestige and schooling. On the other
hand, a decline in GPAs is associated with lower satisfaction with income and
occupation. Moreover, our results indicate that
infant mortality rate, which is used as a proxy for unfavorable health
conditions in the country of birth, has a negative impact on academic
performance during childhood and on personal earnings and income satisfaction
during adulthood.
Keywords: Economics of Education, Human Capital, School Performance, Immigrants
JEL: I21
8. Interregional migration and thresholds: evidence in Spain
Date: 2013
By: Clemente, Jesús
Larramona, Gemma
Olmos, Lorena
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:47631&r=mig
The aim of this paper is to analyze the effects of labor market conditions in
the origin and the destination on interregional migration in Spain, over the
period 1988-2010. A basic theoretical framework is developed and the
implications of the model suggest that the effect of labor market conditions on
migration can vary, depending on a certain threshold. In a second step, the
implications of the model are tested with Spanish data, using a new approach
based on the presence of thresholds. We show that interregional migration can
be explained by labor market fundamentals if the expected wage gap between the
origin and the destination is below an endogenously determinate value.
Keywords: Interregional migration, Thresholds, Spain.
JEL: C20
9. WAS CHINA’S RATE OF POVERTY REDUCTION EVEN FASTER THAN ROUTINELY
ASSUMED? ACCOUNTING FOR THE EFFECTS OF MIGRATION
Date: 2013-08
By: Deininger, Klaus W.
Giles, John
Jin, Songqing
Wang, Hui
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea13:149700&r=mig
Keywords: poverty, China, migration, household definition,
Community/Rural/Urban Development, Consumer/Household Economics, International
Development,
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