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EU enlargement and (temporary) migration : effects on labour market outcomes in Germany

Hammer, Luisa; Hertweck, Matthias S. - 2022

EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May 2011. Taking into account that not all immigrantsstay permanently and that outmigration flows are selective, this paper classifies recent EUimmigrants into “new arrivals” and...

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The integration of migrants in the German labor market : evidence over 50 years

Berbée, Paul; Stuhler, Jan - 2023

Germany has become the second-most important destination for migrants worldwide. Using all waves from the microcensus, we study their labor market integration over the last 50 years, and document key differences to the US case. While the employment gaps between immigrant and native men decline...

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Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation Among Immigrants : 1980-2000

Blau, Francine D. - 2008

We use 1980, 1990 and 2000 Census data to study the impact of source country characteristics on the labor supply assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor force participation rates work substantially more...

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The Economic Assimilation of Irish Famine Migrants to the United States

Collins, William J. - 2018

The repeated failure of Ireland's potato crop in the late 1840s led to a major famine and a surge in migration to the US. We build a dataset of Irish immigrants and their sons by linking males from 1850 to 1880 US census records. For comparison, we also link German and British immigrants, their...

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Immigrants and Gender Roles : Assimilation vs. Culture

Blau, Francine D. - 2015

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women's behavior in the United States—looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply...

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Language integration of labour migrants in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden from a historical perspective

Höhne, Jutta - 2013

Das vorliegende Paper untersucht die sprachliche Integration von Arbeitsmigranten in sechs westeuropäischen … Migranten bis in die frühen oder sogar späten 1980er Jahre hinein. Gemessen an den heutigen intensiven und didaktisch … Österreich), sich auch jetzt nur vergleichsweise wenig engagieren, wenn es darum geht, Sprachunterricht für Migranten zu …

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Working Their Way Up? Us Immigrants' Changing Labor Market Assimilation in the Age of Mass Migration

Collins, William J. - 2019

Whether immigrants advance in labor markets relative to natives is a fundamental question in immigration economics. It is difficult to answer this question for the Age of Mass Migration, when US immigration was at its peak. New datasets of linked census records show that immigrants experienced...

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Is the New Immigration Really so Bad?

Card, David - 2021

This paper reviews the recent evidence on U.S. immigration, focusing on two key questions: (1) Does immigration reduce the labor market opportunities of less-skilled natives? (2) Have immigrants who arrived after the 1965 Immigration Reform Act successfully assimilated? Looking across major...

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The Assimilation of Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Markets

LaLonde, Robert; Topel, Robert H. - 2022

This paper reassesses the evidence on the assimilation and the changing labor market skills of immigrants to the United States. We find strong evidence of labor market assimilation for most immigrant groups. For Asian and Mexican immigrants the first ten years experience in the united States...

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The Adverse Effect of the Covid-19 Labor Market Shock on Immigrant Employment

Borjas, George J. - 2020

Employment rates in the United States fell dramatically between February 2020 and April 2020 as the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic reverberated through the labor market. This paper uses data from the CPS Basic Monthly Files to document that the employment decline was particularly severe...

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