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Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2010

Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding openly into the discussion, usually under some pseudonym. The authors bring culture into the open. They are concerned with how culture manifests itself in the migration process...

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Immigrants' return to schooling in Sweden

Nordin, Martin - 2007

The aim of this paper is to examine if the returns to immigrants’ schooling are lower than the returns to natives’ schooling. In addition the paper tries to establish whether immigrants who invest in different amounts of Swedish education also differ in their returns to schooling. The...

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Wages of childhood immigrants in Sweden: Education, returns to education and overeducation

Katz, Katarina; Österberg, Torun - 2013

We analyse full-time monthly wages of employees with parents born in Sweden and of childhood immigrants who arrived …

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Ethnic Enclaves and the Economic Success of Immigrants - Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; Åslund, Olof - 2000

Recent immigrants tend to locate in ethnic enclaves within metropolitan areas. The economic consequence of living in such enclaves is still an unresolved issue. We use an immigrant policy initiative in Sweden, when government authorities distributed refugee immigrants across locales in a way...

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Recent trends in the earnings of new immigrants to the United States

Borjas, George J.; Friedberg, Rachel M. - 2009

This paper studies long-term trends in the labor market performance of immigrants in the United States, using the 1960-2000 PUMS and 1994-2009 CPS. While there was a continuous decline in the earnings of new immigrants 1960-1990, the trend reversed in the 1990s, with newcomers doing as well in...

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Migranten in Berlin: schlechte Jobchancen, geringe Einkommen, hohe Transferabhängigkeit

Brenke, Karl - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 35, pp. 496-507

enorme Anforderungen zu, denn mehr als 40 Prozent der Kinder unter zehn Jahren in Berlin haben einen Migrationshintergrund …

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How should we organize schooling to further children with migration background?

Schneeweis, Nicole - 2006

Educational integration of children with migration background is an important issue in the social sciences. Few studies … exist that quantify the disadvantage of immigrant children in education and there has not been any attempt to identify … comparison of (dis)integration of students with migration background across countries and time. In a second step, (dis …

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Remittances, migrants' education and immigration policy: Theory and evidence from bilateral data

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - 2011

We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human capital with two dimensions of immigration policy:...

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Schlechte Noten für deutsche Abschottungspolitik

Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 26, pp. 422-429

Arbeitnehmerfreizügigkeit innerhalb der Europäischen Union führt nicht zu Belastungen des Arbeitsmarktes und der Sozialversicherungen. Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt eine aktuelle Forschungsarbeit über die Entwicklungen und Folgen der Ost-West-Migration nach den jüngsten Erweiterungsrunden der...

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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement: Evidence from a placement policy

Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - 2009

Immigrants typically perform worse than other students in the OECD countries. We examine to what extent this is due to … in student performance between refugee immigrant and native-born children. We also provide tentative evidence that the …

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