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Ethnic Identity and Immigrants' Wages in Greece

Drydakis, Nick - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This study investigates the impact of ethnic identity on Albanian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Georgian, and Russian wages in Greece. Treating ethnic identity as a composite of language, cultural habits, ethnic-self identification, societal interaction, and future citizenship plans, the estimations...

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Computer Skills, Destination Language Proficiency and the Earnings of Natives and Immigrants

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Using data from the 2001 Census of Population and Housing in Australia, this paper investigates the determinants, and consequences for earnings, of computer use by both the native born and the foreign born. Focussing on the foreign born, the multivariate analyses show that recent arrivals are...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763562

Labor Market Outcomes of Immigrants and Non-Citizens in the EU: An East-West Comparison

Kahanec, Martin; Zaiceva, Anzelika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

roles depending on gender. We find some evidence that it is the Russian ethnic minority in Estonia and Latvia that drives …

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Low-Skilled Immigrant Entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

More than half of the foreign born workforce in the U.S. have no schooling beyond high school and about 20 percent of the low-skilled workforce are immigrants. More than 10 percent of these low-skilled immigrants are self-employed. Utilizing longitudinal data from the 1996, 2001 and 2004 Survey...

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Are There Gender and Country of Origin Differences in Immigrant Labor Market Outcomes across European Destinations?

Adsera, Alicia; Chiswick, Barry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

labor market performance of immigrants across gender related to duration in the destination, schooling, age at immigration … those in Sweden, Denmark, Luxembourg or Spain the worst, particularly among non-EU born migrants. Gender differences are …

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An Anatomy of Racial and Ethnic Trends in Male Earnings

Winters, John V.; Hirsch, Barry - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Progress in narrowing black-white earnings differences has been far from continuous, with some of the apparent progress resulting from labor force withdrawal among lower-skilled African Americans. This paper builds on prior research and documents racial and ethnic differences in male earnings...

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Are Immigrants Favorably Self-Selected? An Economic Analysis

Chiswick, Barry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

This paper explores the theoretical issues and the empirical literature regarding the selectivity of migrants. Although the primary focus is on international migration, reference is made to internal migration and return migration. The theoretical analysis indicates a tendency toward the...

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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 - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

1989 and later gave them authorization to work legally. The Chinese Student Protection Act, passed in October 1992, made … nationals residing in the U.S. on student or other temporary visas or illegally. Receiving permission to work legally and then a … 2000 than Chinese immigrants who arrived too late to benefit. The results suggest that getting legal work status and then a …

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Immigrant Adjustment in Israel: Literacy and Fluency in Hebrew and Earnings

Chiswick, Barry R.; Repetto, Gaston - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

This paper is an analysis of the determinates of Hebrew language speaking and writing skills and the determinates of earnings among adult male Jewish immigrants in Israel, using the 1972 Census of Israel. Among other findings, Hebrew speaking skills and Hebrew literacy are shown to increase with...

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The Earnings of American Jewish Men: Human Capital, Denomination and Religiosity

Chiswick, Barry R.; Huang, Jidong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper analyzes the determinants of the earnings of American Jewish men using the 2000/01 National Jewish Population Survey. Non-response to the question on earnings is analyzed. Earnings are related to conventional human capital variables, as well as Jewishspecific variables. Except for the...

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