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Net Treasury Transfers for Canadian-born and OECD immigrants by citizenship status, 1995 (5-year moving average)
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How to improve healthcare access for Chinese migrants? We show that the social network is a major key. It uses a 2006 dataset from a survey of rural migrant workers conducted in five cities amongst the most economically advanced. We use a fixed effect logit model and we control for the non-exogeneity of the health insurance. The empirical findings...
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How to improve healthcare access for Chinese migrants? We show that the social network is a major key. It uses a 2006 dataset from a survey of rural migrant workers conducted in five cities amongst the most economically advanced. We use a fixed effect logit model and we control for the non-exogeneity of the health insurance. The empirical findings...
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... Recently, economists have renewed their interest in the topic of naturalizations. However, most of them looked at this issue in the U.S. or Canada (see Bratsberg et al. (2002), DeVoretz and Pivenenko (2005a), DeVoretz and Pivenenko (2005b), DeVoretz (2008), Mazzolari (2007)). For European countries exist only few empirical studies that analyze the economic impact of naturalizations like Kogan (2003) for Austria and Sweden, Bevelander and Veenman (2006) for the Netherlands and Scott (2006) for Sweden. ...
This paper analyses whether citizenship acquisition affects the labour market performance of immigrants in Germany. The study uses actual micro data from the employment sample of the Institute for Employment Research, which covers more than 80% of the entire labour force in Germany. The econometric analysis has been carried out using panel data techniques, which allow to disentangle the effects of self-selection and legal impact of citizenship acquisition. Estimates from a pooled OLS specification suggest the existence of a wage premium
for naturalized immigrants of both genders. Fixed effects estimates for males show an increased wage growth in the years following naturalization, consistent with the argument that naturalization increases the labour market opportunities of immigrants. Results for female employees indicate that the wage premium of naturalized women is solely the result of a positive self-selection process.
... The Structural (i.e., position in society) variables were Education Level, Family Income and Gender. The number or presence of children can be added to the former list, and age at migration can be added to the latter list: Portes and Curtin (1987) and Yang (1994) suggest that immigrants with children, especially those born in the 2 DeVoretz and Pivnenko (2005), however, estimate a structural model that includes an expected wage differential. A mover-stayer type framework was applied in this study. ...
This study develops and estimates a model of the naturalization process in the US. The model is based on both the characteristics of immigrants and features of their countries of origin. The empirical analysis is based on the 2000 US Census. Both the characteristics of immigrants and the origin-country variables are shown to be important determinants of citizenship status. The individual characteristics that have the most influence are educational attainment, age at migration, years since migration, veteran of the US armed forces, living with family, and spouses’ educational attainment. The country of origin variables of most importance are their degree of civil liberties and political rights, GDP per capita, whether the origin country recognizes dual citizenship, and the geographic distance of the origin country from the US.
... Prior to the work of DeVoretz and Pivnenko (2005) the extant economic literature concentrated on only one aspect of the immigrant citizenship question, namely the economic impact of naturalisation. The economic analysis by Bratsberg et al. (2002) illustrates this point when they choose only to investigate the earnings and employment prospects of citizens and non-citizens in the United States labour market. ...
Economists studying the economic behaviour of immigrants have tended to avoid serious interdisciplinary work. I argue that when presented with a particular set of research questions that lend themselves to a utility maximisation framework, an economist will be able to pursue interdisciplinary work. I further argue that the necessary if not sufficient ingredient for true economic collaborative research has been met in the field of citizenship acquisition. I review the existing empirical research on citizenship acquisition and its economic impacts to support this argument.
... Moreover, naturalization implies sizable economic benefits: some contributions to the empirical literature on naturalization and assimilation, like Bratsberg et al. (2002) or DeVoretz and Pivnenko (2004, 2005, show that naturalization entrains, for instance, easier participation to the national labor market and higher wages. Finally, our model can be also related to a couple of papers by Dolmas and Huffman (2004) and Ortega (2004), which study how natives choose immigration policies by majority voting, anticipating how the presence of immigrants will modify future redistributive tax policies, or the relative political power of different skill groups. ...
This paper provides the first political economy model in which self-interested natives decide when voting rights should be granted to foreign-born workers. This choice is driven by the maximization of th net gains from immigration. We focus on the provision of a public good : immigrants could enlarge the tax base by increasing the total workforce, but at the same time they influence the tax rate by eventually exerting their political rights. We find that the quantity and the quality (human capital) of perspective immigrants, the political composition of the native population, and the sensitivity of the migration choice to voting rights, are all decisive factors in determining the political choice over the optimal timing of naturalization
In light of the EU enlargements and a promise of unrestricted mobility within EU borders for European nationals, the opportunity was rapidly implemented in particular by young and highly educated Poles. However, some aspirant migrants wished to travel beyond EU borders and such individuals sought different strategies to migrate, including obtaining British citizenship and passport. The paper highlights the possibility of a go-stop-go mobility, what can be described as a stepped approach to citizenship, and a key feature of the new elite cohort of young European graduates, who use their European citizenship to obtain an alternative citizenship which acts as a passport literally and metaphorically to mobility beyond Europe.
This paper presents a political economy model in which self-interested natives decide when citizenship and/or voting rights should be granted to foreign-born workers. Native voters know that immigrants hold different ‘political’ preferences and would thus tend to postpone their enfranchisement as much as possible. They also consider, however, that a more restrictive naturalization policy may reduce the gains from immigration. We find that the optimal timing of naturalization depends on the quantity, quality (productivity), and preferences of potential immigrants, the political composition and the age structure of the native population, as well as the sensitivity of migration choices to the citizenship issue.
L'économie politique de la naturalisation. Ce texte présente un modèle d'économie politique dans lequel les natifs décident quand la citoyenneté et/ou les droits de vote devraient être accordés aux travailleurs nés à l'étranger. Les électeurs natifs savent que les immigrants ont des préférences `politiques`différentes, et tendraient à reporter leur integration politique le plus possible. Ils considèrent cependant qu'une politique plus restrictive de naturalisation peut réduire les gains découlant de l'immigration. On découvre que la période de qualification optimale pour la naturalisation dépend du nombre, de la qualité (productivité) et des préférences des immigrants potentiels, de la composition politique et de la structure d'âges de la population native, ainsi que la sensibilité des choix migratoires à la question de la citoyenneté.
It is important to consider how financial institutions are adjusting their operational strategies because of the changing
dynamics of financial resource and population flows. This paper compares the ways in which globally prominent banks provide
financial services to immigrants in Canada and the US and addresses the following two research questions: (1) How has HSBC
reacted strategically and operationally to people–money comovements involving immigrants, in which HSBC has ethnic assets,
in the US and Canada? (2) What are the similarities and differences in HSBC’s strategic choices in entering or expanding in
the San Francisco and Vancouver areas, and what explains such differences?
Il est important de considérer la façon dont les institutions financières ajustent leurs stratégies opérationelles en réaction
à la dynamique changeante des mouvements de ressources financières et démographiques. Cet article compare la façon dont les
banques mondiales offrent des services financiers aux immigrants au Canada et aux États-Unis. De plus, l’article traite des
deux questions de recherche suivantes: 1) Au Canada et aux États-Unis, comment la HSBC a-t-elle réagit, sur les plan stratégique
et opérationnel, aux mouvements démographique et financier qui impliquent les immigrants et dans lesquels la HSBC détient
des actifs ethniques? et 2) Quelles sont les similarités et les différences entre les choix stratégiques de la HSBC de percer
ou de s’agrandir dans la région de San Francisco et celle de Vancouver, et comment expliquer les différences?
We use data from pooled 2000 to 2004 current population surveys (CPSs) to examine generational differences in cohabitation and marriage among men and women ages 20–34 in the US. Consistent with our expectation and in line with assimilation theory, levels of cohabitation rise across succeeding generations. In contrast, generational differences in marriage follow a curvilinear pattern such that those in the second generation are least likely to be married, which supports some contemporary extensions of assimilation theory. These patterns persist across education groups, and tend to hold across racial and ethnic groups, too, although among women, the predicted percentages cohabiting across generations vary widely by race-ethnicity.
