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Measuring Cultural Diversity and its Impact on Innovation: Longitudinal Evidence from Dutch firms

Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques; Ozgen, Ceren - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2013

To investigate econometrically whether cultural diversity of a firm’s employees boosts innovation, we create a unique linked employer-employee dataset that combines data from two innovation surveys in The Netherlands with administrative and tax data. We calculate three distinct measures of...

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Immigrants' Children Scientific Performance in a Double Comparative Design: The Influence of Origin, Destination, and Community

Dronkers, Jaap; Heus, Manon de - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012

immigration receiving countries cannot be explained by these children's favourable background characteristics. The political and …

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Immigrant Pupils' Scientific Performance: The Influence of Educational System Features of Origin and Destination Countries

Dronkers, Jaap; Heus, Manon de; Levels, Mark - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012

This paper explores the extent to which educational system features of destination and origin countries can explain differences in immigrant children's educational achievement. Using data from the 2006 PISA survey, we performed cross- classified multilevel analysis on the science performance of...

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The Impact of Cultural Diversity on Innovation: Evidence from Dutch Firm-Level Data

Ozgen, Ceren - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2011

Due to the growth in international migration in recent decades, the workforce of firms in host countries has become considerably more diverse, both demographically and culturally. It is an important question for firms and for governments to ask whether there are some productivity-enhancing...

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How Do Industries and Firms Respond to Changes in Local Labor Supply?

dustmann, christian; Glitz, Albrecht - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2011

In this paper, we investigate how changes in the skill mix of local labor supply are absorbed by the economy. We distinguish between three adjustment mechanisms: through factor prices, through an expansion in the size of those production units that use the more abundant skill group more...

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Immigration and Occupations in Europe

D'Amuri, Francesco; Peri, Giovanni - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2010

change in Complex/Non Complex task supply from natives and immigrants we find that immigration does not change much the …

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The importance of heterogeneity when examining immigrant education-occupation mismatch: evidence from New Zealand

Poot, Jacques; Stillman, Steven - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2010

Many immigrants are overqualified in their first job after arrival in the host country. Education-occupation mismatch can affect the economic integration of immigrants and the returns to education and experience. The extent of this problem has been measured in recent years by means of micro...

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Immigration, Family Responsibilities and the Labor Supply of Skilled Native Women

Farré, Lidia; Gonzalez, Libertad; Ortega, Francesc - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2009

native women. We hypothesize that female immigration led to an increase in the supply of affordable household services, such … 2 hours per week). We also find that immigration allowed skilled native women to return to work sooner after childbirth …This paper investigates the effects of Spain's large recent immigration wave on the labor supply of highly skilled …

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Age at migration and social integration

Skans, Oskar Nordström; Aslund, Olof; Bohlmark, Anders - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2009

The paper studies childhood migrants and examines how age at migration affects their ensuing integration at the residential market, the labor market, and the marriage market. We use population-wide Swedish data and compare outcomes as adults among siblings arriving at different ages in order to...

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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement - evidence from a placement policy

Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; Grönqvist, Hans; … - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2009

Immigrants typically perform worse than other students in the OECD countries. We examine to what extent this is due to the population characteristics of the neighborhoods that immigrants grow up in. We address this issue using a governmental refugee placement policy which provides exogenous...

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