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This study evaluates the effect of ethnic identity on the employment level of immigrants in Greece. Treating ethnic identity as a composite of key cultural elements the estimations suggest that employment is positively associated with assimilation and integration and negatively associated with...
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identity is a major issue; even more challenging is to measure its impact on economic outcomes such as the probability to work …
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-dimensional acculturation framework based on both strength of identity to the (ethnic) minority and to the (Swedish) majority culture. Results …
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It has been well documented that immigrants' clustering of residence in large cities has been associated with the creation of a number of ethnic enclaves. The intensive exposure to own-ethnic population could affect immigrant labour market involvement positively or negatively. However, no extant...
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We compare alternative methods for estimating immigrant wage and employment assimilation using unique panel data over 2001–2009 for a large, nationally-representative sample of immigrants. Previous assimilation estimates have been mainly based on cross-sectional data and have therefore...
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Three decades ago most immigrants to Australia with work entitlements came as permanent settlers. Today the annual … allocation of temporary visas, with work entitlements, outnumbers permanent settler visas by a ratio of three to one. The new … immigrants come first as a temporary immigrant, to work or study, and then seek to move to permanent status. Around one half of …
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Naturalization is usually regarded as an important sign of civic and political integration amongst immigrants, but it can also be seen as a factor of their economic integration. The aim of this study is to analyze the naturalization phenomenon in France and examine its link with the...
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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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gender, origin and educational attainment. For instance, EU15 immigrants do not display an employment or occupational gap …
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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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