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The Immigrant-Native Wage Gap in Germany
Aldashev, Alisher; Gernandt, Johannes; Thomsen, Stephan L. - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 232 (2012) 5, pp. 490-517
Immigrant-native wage differentials are observed in many countries, so in Germany. However, the available empirical literature for Germany defined the groups in consideration, immigrants and natives, by citizenship. This limits the explanatory power of the estimates since citizenship...
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The impact of immigration on the French labor market: Why so different?
Ortega, Javier; Verdugo, Gregory - In: Labour Economics 29 (2014) C, pp. 14-27
immigration on natives' wages and employment is shown to hold also at the regional level. We find evidence that this positive … important part of the positive relation between immigration and wages comes from a reallocation of natives to better …
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Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel
Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
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 and entrepreneurship : business ownership is higher among immigrants, but promoting self-employment is unlikely to improve outcomes for less skilled immigrants
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2014
Immigrants are widely perceived to be highly entrepreneurial, contributing to economic growth and innovation, and self-employment is often viewed as a means of enhancing labor market integration and success among immigrants. Accordingly, many countries have established special visas and entry...
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The earnings of immigrants and the quality adjustment of immigrant human capital
Sharaf, Mesbah - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-18
The quality dimension of immigrant human capital has received little attention in the economic assimilation literature. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how human capital acquired in different source countries may be adjusted according to its quality in the Canadian labor market....
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Firms and the economics of skilled immigration
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F. - 2014
to date in understanding the impact of high skilled immigration from the perspective of the firm and the open areas that … call for more research. Since much of the U.S. immigration process for skilled workers rests in the hands of employer firms …
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Chapter 17. Immigration and Entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 877-911). 2015
is reflected in immigration policies, and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in …
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Crime and immigration : do poor labor market opportunities lead to migrant crime?
Bell, Brian - 2014
Immigration is one of the most important policy debates in Western countries. However, one aspect of the debate is … often mischaracterized by accusations that higher levels of immigration lead to higher levels of crime. The evidence, based … on empirical studies of many countries, indicates that there is no simple link between immigration and crime, but …
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Do immigrants squeeze natives out of bad schedules? : evidence from Italy
Osea, Giuntella - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-23
This paper documents the effect of immigrant concentration on natives’ work schedules. I show that immigrants are more likely to work at non‐standard hours (i.e. evenings, nights and Sundays) and that a higher proportion of immigrants in the local labor market is associated with a lower...
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Chapter 4 Immigrants and Their Schooling
Smith, James P. - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 1, (pp. 155-187). 2006
This chapter deals with several salient issues about immigrants to the US and their education. These issues include a comparison of the schooling accomplishments of immigrants compared to the native-born both contemporaneously as well as over time. These comparisons emphasize the considerable...
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