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Economic and Ethnic Polarisation among Childrenin Sweden´s Three Metropolitan Areas

Biterman, Danuta; Gustafsson, Björn; Österberg, Torun - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper investigates certain issues of economic and ethnic segregation from theperspective of children in the three metropolitan regions of Sweden by using a relative newoperationalization of the neighbourhood concept. Neighbourhoods are clustered bypopulation share of visible immigrants in...

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International Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Inequality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

induced changes in equality may be considerable in size. In practice, however, migrants typically improve their income …

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The Economics of Language : An Introduction and Overview

Chiswick, Barry R. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that … language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and … determinants of destination language proficiency among immigrants[...] …

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Chinese Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Market:Effects of Post-Tiananmen Immigration Policy

Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline; Kerr, Emily - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

significantpositive effect on skilled migrants’ labor market outcomes.... …

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Citizenship in the United States : The Roles of Immigrant Characteristics and Country of Origin

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

This study develops and estimates a model of the naturalization process in the US. The model is based on both the characteristics of immigrants and features of their countries of origin. The empirical analysis is based on the 2000 US Census...

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Ancestry versus Ethnicity : The Complexity and Selectivity of Mexican Identification in the United States

Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

Using microdata from the 2000 U.S. Census, we analyze the responses of Mexican Americans to questions that independently elicit their ethnicity (or Hispanic origin) and their ancestry. We investigate whether different patterns of responses to these questions reflect varying degrees of ethnic...

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Employment Assimilation of Immigrants in the Netherlands : Catching Up and the Irrelevance of Education

Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

Using two Dutch labour force surveys, employment assimilation of immigrants is examined. We observe marked differences between immigrants by source country. Non-western immigrants never reach parity with native Dutch. Even second generation immigrants never fully catch up...

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Is the Glass Ceiling Cracking? A Simple Test

Hu, Ting; Yun, Myeong-Su - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

It has been reported that there is dramatic increase of female workers into manager level jobs during last few decades in the US labor market. Using Standard & Poor`s Compustat ExecuComp database over 14 years (1992 - 2005), this paper examines whether the glass ceiling in the executive market...

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The Effect of Minimum Wages on Immigrants´ Employment and Earnings

Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

This study examines how minimum wage laws affect the employment and earnings of low-skilled immigrants and natives in the U.S. Minimum wage increases might have larger effects among low-skilled immigrants than among natives because, on average, immigrants earn less than natives due to lower...

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Mexican-American Entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Woodruff, Christopher - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

Although business ownership has implications for income inequality, wealth accumulation and job creation, surprisingly little research explores why Mexican-Americans are less likely to start businesses and why the businesses that they start are less successful on average than non-Latino whites...

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