migrants who arrive through family reunification are less likely to work full-time; refugees are also less self-employed. Those …There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This … host country (worker, refugee, and family reunification), ethnic networks, enclaves and other differences among ethnicities …

German migrants to West Germany in comparison with native born West Germans. Ethnic German immigrants from Eastern Europe …Germany has experienced a substantial influx of German immigrants from Eastern Europe after World War II and expects … display lower levels of education, lower rates of self-employment and higher unemployment rates than natives and immigrants …

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 migrants choose smaller networks as their English language proficiency …Empirical studies in the migration literature have shown that migration enclaves (networks) negatively affect the …

Survey (SLFS). The earnings difference decomposition between natives and immigrants reveals that the discrimination effect …Recent studies have shown that there are significant earnings differentials between immigrants and natives in …-economic endowments or to discrimination. We use the well-known econometric technique, developed by Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973), to …

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. …

of workers into an endowment component and a discrimination component. The standard decomposition technique does not take … modified, in order to take into account the contribution of segregation to the endowments and the discrimination components. It … results show that discrimination plays a more important role in explaining gender wage differentials than in explaining ethnic …

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 …

Switzerland has experienced a substantial influx of immigrants over the 50 years since World War II, to the extent that … immigrants. Two main results emerge from our study: first, as a result of shortcomings of the Swiss migration policy, immigrants … are substantial discrepancies in the performance of immigrants from different countries of origin. Immigrants from North …

efficacy of vocational education in raising the wage levels of four such groups: recent immigrants, Jews of Eastern origin …