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    <title>Migration, entrepreneurship and development: Critical questions</title>
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    <description>Title: Migration, entrepreneurship and development: Critical questions
Authors: Naudé, Wim; Siegel, Melissa; Marchand, Katrin
Abstract: This paper poses and answers a number of critical questions about the relationship between migration and entrepreneurship in the process of economic development. In doing so, we show that the standard policy response to migrants and migrant entrepreneurs are often based on an inadequate understanding of migrant entrepreneurs. The questions we pose are the following: (i) Are immigrants really more entrepreneurial than natives? (ii) Are migrant remittances likely to fund entrepreneurship in their home countries? (iii) Are return migrants more likely to be entrepreneurial than non-migrants? And finally, based on the answers, (iv) Does migration matter for development? We conclude that one must avoid seeing migrants as super-entrepreneurs and that the (positive) developmental impact of migration is more significant through other channels. Removal of discriminatory barriers against migrants and against migrant entrepreneurs in labour, consumer and financial markets will promote development in both sending and receiving countries, not least through reducing the shares of migrants that are reluctant entrepreneurs.</description>
    <dc:date>2017-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Gender and racial differences in peer effects of limited English students: A story of language or ethnicity?</title>
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    <description>Title: Gender and racial differences in peer effects of limited English students: A story of language or ethnicity?
Authors: Diette, Timothy M.; Oyelere, Ruth Uwaifo
Abstract: There is a perception among native born parents in the USA that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina, there has been a significant increase in immigrants, especially those with limited English language skills. Recent data suggests that North Carolina has the eighth largest English-language learner (ELL) student population and over 60 % of immigrants are from Latin America and the Caribbean. While past research suggests negative though negligible peer effects of Limited English (LE) students and black students on the achievement of other students, potential peer effects of students from Latin America in general have not been considered. In this paper, we attempt to identify both LE student and Latin American (LA) student peer effects by separately utilizing fixed effects methods that allow us to deal with the potential selectivity across time and schools. On average, we find no evidence of negative peer effects of LE students on females and white students but note small negative effects on average on males and black students. We also find that, holding constant other factors, an increase in the share of LA students does not create negative peer effects on native students' achievement. Rather, it is the limited English language skills of some of these students that lead to small, negative peer effects on natives.</description>
    <dc:date>2017-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Prior host-country work experience and immigrant labor market outcomes: Evidence from Canada</title>
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    <description>Title: Prior host-country work experience and immigrant labor market outcomes: Evidence from Canada
Authors: Pandey, Manish; Townsend, James
Abstract: Recent changes to immigration selection policies favor skilled workers with prior work experience in the immigrant host country. Using unique administrative tax data for Canada, we estimate earnings equations to quantify the difference in earnings of immigrants with prior Canadian experience (prefilers) and those without prior experience (non-prefilers). We find that, relative to non-prefilers, entry earnings are higher for prefilers and, for male immigrants, this earnings advantage persists for at least 20 years after arrival. We show that the primary source of the higher entry earnings of prefilers is a higher return to foreign experience. In addition, the prefiler earnings advantage is largest for university graduates and the return to foreign experience is higher for prefilers from Western countries than those from the rest of the world. Our findings suggest that a move towards an immigrant selection system which uses previous host-country work experience as a criterion will improve the labor market performance of immigrants.</description>
    <dc:date>2017-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Is the lower return to immigrants' foreign schooling a postarrival problem in Canada?</title>
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    <description>Title: Is the lower return to immigrants' foreign schooling a postarrival problem in Canada?
Authors: Aydede, Yigit; Dar, Atul
Abstract: Using the 2006 Canadian Census, this paper investigates the lower return to immigrants' foreign education credentials after adjusting for their occupational matching in hosting labor markets. We develop two continuous indices that quantify the matching quality of the native-born in both horizontal (fields of study) and vertical (educational degrees) dimensions. This allows us to separate the effects of immigrants' occupational attainment and their foreign schooling quality on wage earnings by measuring immigrants' occupational match relative to that of native-born. Our findings indicate that the lack of portability in immigrants' foreign credentials may not be addressed effectively by postarrival policies as the results show that a significant and persistent poor matching quality for internationally educated immigrants cannot substantiate the lower return to their foreign education credentials.</description>
    <dc:date>2017-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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