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Ethnic Concentration and Language Fluency of Immigrants in Germany
Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Studies that investigate the effect of the regional ethnic composition on immigrant outcomes have been complicated by the self-selection of ethnic minorities into specific neighbourhoods. We analyse the impact of own-ethnic concentration on the language proficiency of immigrants by exploiting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008522428
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Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in Germany: Moving with Natives or Stuck in their Neighborhoods?
Yuksel, Mutlu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
In this paper, I analyze intergenerational mobility of immigrants and natives in Germany. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP), I find intergenerational elasticities that range from 0.19 to 0.26 for natives and from 0.37 to 0.40 for immigrants. These elasticity estimates are lower than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008497017
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The Labour Market Position of Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands: Reason for Migration, Naturalisation and Language Proficiency
Euwals, Rob; Dagevos, Jaco; Gijsberts, Mérove; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
investigate the importance of characteristics related to immigration for the labour market position of Turkish immigrants. We use … explained partly by differences in immigration rules. In Germany economic self-reliance is more important than in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822974
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The Impact of Multilingualism on Spanish Language Acquisition among Immigrants in Spain
Budría, Santiago; Swedberg, Pablo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This article uses micro-data from the Spanish National Immigrant Survey to analyze the acquisition of Spanish language skills for immigrants in Spain. The motivation of the paper is threefold. Language skills are important for an individual's labour market performance, Spain offers an important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011106159
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Immigrants’ Language Skills and Visa Category
Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
after immigration, followed by family-based visa recipients, with refugees having the lowest proficiency. These differences … disappear by 3 ½ years after immigration for speaking skills, but they persist for reading and writing skills. The variables …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566815
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Why Do Firms Use Fixed-Term Contracts?
Portugal, Pedro; Varejão, José - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Temporary forms of employment account for a variable but never trivial share of total employment in both the U.S. and in Europe. In this article we look at how one specific form of temporary employment − employment with fixed-term contracts − fits into employers' hiring policies. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005103274
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Spatial and Temporal Aggregation in the Estimation of Labor Demand Functions
Varejão, José; Portugal, Pedro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The consequences of aggregation, temporal or spatial, for the estimation of demand models are theoretically well-known, but have not been documented empirically with appropriate data before. In this paper we conduct a simple, but instructive, exercise to fill in this gap, using a large quarterly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566347
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Do Immigrants Take the Jobs of Native Workers?
Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Munch, Jakob Roland; Skaksen, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
In this paper, we focus on the short-run adjustments taking place at the workplace level when immigrants are employed. Specifically, we analyse whether individual native workers are replaced or displaced by the employment of immigrants within the same narrowly defined occupations at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703708
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Occupational Labor Shortages: Concepts, Causes, Consequences, and Cures
Barnow, Burt S.; Trutko, John; Piatak, Jaclyn Schede - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Barnow, Trutko, and Piatak focus on whether persistent occupation-specific labor shortages might lead to inefficiencies in the U.S. economy. They describe why shortages arise, the difficulty in ascertaining that a shortage is present, and how to assess strategies to alleviate the shortage.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850072
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The Dynamic Impact of Immigration on Natives' Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Israel
Cohen-Goldner, Sarit; Paserman, M. Daniele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
for native workers, we expect that the impact of immigration will be largest immediately upon the immigrants’ arrival, and … substitutes for natives because of their lack of local human capital, the initial effect of immigration is small, and the effect … other hand, we do not find any effect of immigration on employment, neither in the short nor in the long run. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233757