This paper explores the issue of discrimination against Asian migrants in the Australian labour market using a unique … panel data set, the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia (LSIA). This paper estimates models of the probability of … significant “unexplained differences” for males that may be ascribed to “discrimination” against Asian migrants. However, the …

This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to … immigrants, Turks are twice as likely to choose self-employment as any other immigrant group. The age-earnings profiles of self … the self-employed Greeks, Italians, Spaniards, ex-Yugoslavs, Polish or other East Europeans, including those immigrants …

This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial undertaking of immigrants and natives in Germany. We first study factors that … Germans. We find that the probability of self-employment increases significantly with age for all groups. For immigrants, the … over time. However, when immigrants have accumulated more years of residence in Germany, the likelihood is increasing again …

worries. While individuals are strongly pulled into selfemployment if it offers higher earnings, immigrants are additionally … pushed into selfemployment when they feel discriminated. Married immigrants are more likely to go into selfemployment, but … less likely when they have young children. Immigrants living with foreign passports in ethnic households are more likely …

receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance …

This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the … show that returns to human capital are considerably lower for immigrants as compared to natives and that there is no return … human capital, for immigrants and natives, in explaining inter-occupational and intra-occupational earnings progression …

differences between self- and paid employment among rural immigrants. We interpret the relevant effect of discrimination in 2002 … unemployment. The empirical analysis confirms that self-employment also attracts married individuals and those in good health … predominantly arise through differences in coefficients (i.e. "discrimination") while those between self- and paid employment among …

Switzerland has experienced a substantial influx of immigrants over the last 50 years after World War II, which has led … labour market performance of immigrants. Two main results emerge from our study. First, as a result of the shortcomings of … the Swiss migration policy, immigrants tend to have a negative impact on the Swiss economy. Second, the analysis of the …