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Skill-based immigration, economic integration, and economic performance : benefiting from highly skilled immigrants requires a complementary mix of immigrant selection and economic...
Aydemir, Abdurrahman - 2014
highlights a need for complementary immigration and integration policies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416488
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Bridges or buffers? : motives behind immigrants’ religiosity
Garcia-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-23
This study reviews and evaluates the motives and incentives behind immigrants’ religiosity, focusing on the two sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to identify indicators for the type of incentive – whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224804
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Migration and integration in a post-pandemic world : socioeconomic opportunities and challenges
Lerpold, Lin (ed.); Sjöberg, Örjan (ed.);  … - 2023
Introduction to Migration and Integration in a Post-pandemic World -- The Shape of Things to Come: International … Vaccine Hesitancy among Somali Immigrants in Stockholm -- Conclusion to Migration and Integration in a Post-pandemic World. …As the world emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, this book explores current migration and integration challenges …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014289535
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Are immigrants healthier than native residents? : immigrants tend to be healthier than native residents when they arrive - an advantage that dissipates with time
Neuman, Shoshana - 2014
In common anti-immigrant rhetoric, concerns are raised that immigrants bring diseases with them to the host country that threaten the health of the resident population. In reality, extensive empirical research over several decades and across multiple regions and host countries has documented...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422429
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Can immigrants ever earn as much as native workers? : immigrants initially earn less than natives; the wage gap falls over time, but for many immigrant groups it never closes
Anderson, Kathryn H. - 2015
Immigrants contribute to the economic development of the host country, but they earn less at entry and it takes many years for them to achieve parity of income. For some immigrant groups, the wage gap never closes. There is a wide variation across countries in the entry wage gap and the speed of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431716
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Chapter 24. Immigration in Europe : Trends, Policies, and Empirical Evidence
de la Rica, Sara; Glitz, Albrecht; Ortega, Francesc - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 1303-1362). 2015
This chapter summarizes the main trends, policies, and empirical evidence regarding immigration in Europe. We start by … providing descriptive evidence on long-term immigration trends and current characteristics of the immigrant populations in … the second part of the chapter, we provide a survey of the large and growing literature on the recent European immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025426
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Chapter 22. The Labor Market Integration and Impacts of US Immigrants
Cadena, Brian C.; Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 1197-1259). 2015
inequality, and (2) growth in both the size and the diversity of immigration flows. Because a large share of new immigrants … American economy. In this chapter, we first place this concern in context by briefly describing the history of US immigration …, and the impact of immigration on the earnings and employment opportunities of native workers. We show that immigrants have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025428
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Chapter 4. The Human Capital (Schooling) of Immigrants in America
Smith, James P. - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 183-210). 2015
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 and the native-born that emphasizes the considerable diversity in the schooling accomplishments among different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025479
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Chapter 5. International Migration and the Economics of Language
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 211-269). 2015
This chapter reports on the “economics of language” for immigrants—that is, the influence of language on the choice of destination among international migrants, the determinants among immigrants of destination language proficiency, and the labor market consequences of that proficiency, as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025478
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Divorce among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S
Houseworth, Christina A.; Chiswick, Barry R. - In: Review of Economics of the Household 18 (2020) 1, pp. 1-25
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012231052