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The increasing diversity of immigrant-receiving countries calls for measures of residential segregation that extend …/Caribbean groups and blacks were highly clustered and shared common patterns of segregation with other groups. This study highlights … segregation patterns. The results also demonstrate the merits of this method in providing a more conceptually meaningful way to …
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educational level. Our findings show that while they were mainly unemployed prior to immigration, no significant differences in …
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Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which they first entered the United States. Immigrants who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a...
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Immigration to the UK, particularly among more educated workers, has risen appreciably over the past 30 years and as … such has raised labor supply. However studies of the impact of immigration have failed to find any significant effect on …, namely that in the UK natives and foreign born workers are imperfect substitutes. We show that immigration has primarily …
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There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. In some countries where labour markets are...
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Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socio-economic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper extends the analysis of immigrant housing tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic...
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immigration for natives' labour market outcomes, as well as issues linked to immigrants' integration in the host … to immigration.<P>Les migrations dans les pays de l'OCDE : Impact sur le marché du travail et intégration<BR>Les pays de … marché du travail ont un rôle important à jouer afin de favoriser les ajustements économiques associés à l'immigration. …
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This working paper assesses the ease of immigrants' integration in OECD labour markets by estimating how an immigration …
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In this paper we construct a simple model of the effects of immigration on the labour market outcomes of natives. In …, there are sufficient conditions for immigration to raise total employment. We then estimate the effects of immigration on …
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