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immigrants arriving from non-western countries. The aim of this paper is to explore the link between citizenship and employment … probabilities for immigrants in both countries, controlling for a range of demographic, human capital, and municipal characteristics … on employment probabilities in both Canada and Sweden. The size of the co-ethnic population has a positive impact for …
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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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Our study examines the empirical link between the naturalization of immigrants and their subsequent employment status … particularly true for groups of immigrants who have a low probability of employment in the host country. … French censuses. The dataset we use is especially valuable for studying social integration of immigrants since it allows us …
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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 …-savings" effect they may leave unaffected, or even increase, total native employment of less skilled workers. Our model also predicts … positive net effect on native employment while offshoring has no effect on it. We also find some evidence that offshoring has …
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There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This … paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment … for their integration in the labor market. Since the focus is on the understanding of the self-employment decision, a two …
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This paper studies the determinants of naturalization among Turkish and ex-Yugoslav immigrants in Germany … characteristics. A robust finding is that German citizenship is very valuable to female immigrants and the generally better educated … citizenship acquisition. Likewise, ethnic origins and religion also influence these decisions. Muslim immigrants in Germany are …
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The economic literature has largely overlooked the importance of repeat and circular migration. The paper studies this behaviour by analyzing the number of exits and the total number of years away from the host country using count data models and panel data from Germany. More than 60% of...
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The selection of immigrants by skill and education is a central issue in the analysis of immigration. Since highly … educated immigrants tend to be more successful in host country labour markets and less of a fiscal cost it is important to know … migrants from around 80 source countries who were observed as immigrants in each of 29 OECD countries in 2000/1. We develop a …
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employment probability about two months after unemployment entry. We observe a significantly lower employment probability for …
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In the last 20 years, developed countries have struggled with what seemed to be an ever-rising tide of asylum seekers, a trend that has now gone into reverse. This paper examines what happened and why. How have oppression, violence and economic conditions in origin countries shaped worldwide...
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