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arrival, wages of highly skilled immigrants grow at 8.13% a year. Rising prices of skills, occupational transitions …This paper develops a descriptive methodology for the analysis of wage growth of immigrants, based on human capital … non-linear model which is estimated, using repeated cross-section data. Using data on immigrants from the former Soviet …
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following arrival, wages of highly skilled immigrants grow at 8% a year. Rising prices of skills, occupational transitions … average wages of immigrants approach but do not converge to the wages of comparable natives. The main reason for that is the …This Paper develops a descriptive methodology for the analysis of wage growth of immigrants, based on human capital …
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This Paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to … immigrants, Turks are twice as likely to choose self-employment as any other immigrant group. The age-earnings profiles of self … the self-employed Greeks, Italians, Spaniards, ex-Yugoslavs, Polish or other East Europeans, including those immigrants …
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This paper attempts to disentangle the direct effects of experience from those of culture in determining fertility. We use the GSS to examine the fertility of women born in the US but from different ethnic backgrounds. We take lagged values of the total fertility rate in woman’s country of...
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In this paper, we investigate whether there is a double-negative effect on the wages of immigrant women in Denmark … of register data, we find that all women are affected by a substantial gender discrimination in wages, but only Pakistani …
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continuum of tasks in each sector and we augment it to include immigrants with heterogeneous productivity in tasks. We use this … pushed natives toward more communication-intensive tasks while it has pushed immigrants away from them. …
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Labor market programs may affect unemployed individuals’ behavior before they enroll. Such ex ante effects may differ according to ethnic origin. We apply a novel method that relates self-reported perceived treatment rates and job search behavioral outcomes, such as the reservation wage or...
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The standard approach of analysing gaps in social and labor market outcomes of different ethnic groups relies on analysis of statistical data about the affected groups. In this paper we go beyond this approach by measuring the views of expert stakeholders involved in minority integration. This...
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We study the effect of culture on important economic outcomes by using the 1970 Census to examine the work and fertility behaviour of women 30-40 years old, born in the US, but whose parents were born elsewhere. We use past female labour force participation and total fertility rates from the...
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Empirical studies in the migration literature have shown that migration enclaves (networks) negatively affect the language proficiency of migrants. These studies, however, ignore the choice of location as a function of language skills. Using data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that...
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