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Ethnicity and the Immigration of Highly Skilled Workers to the United States

Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic … components of ethnicity – country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion – among persons admitted to legal permanent …. India dominates EB-2 and European countries EB-1. (2) The ethnicity portfolio contains more languages than religions. (3 …

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Economic and Cultural Gaps among Foreign-born Minorities in Spain

de la Rica, Sara; Ortega, Francesc - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

, Eastern Europeans, Moroccans and individuals from Other Muslim countries. We focus on several outcomes: the gender education …

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International Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Inequality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

the role of ethnicity and ethnic identity for relative economic performance. …

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Assimilation in Multilingual Cities

Ortega, Javier; Verdugo, Gregory - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Using the Public Use Microdata Files of the 2001 and 2006 Canadian Censuses, we study the determinants of the assimilation of language minorities into the city majority language. We show that official minority members (i.e. francophones in English-speaking cities and anglophones in...

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Inter- and Intra-Marriage Premiums Revisited: It's Probably Who You Are, Not Who You Marry!

Nekby, Lena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

For immigrants, intermarriage with natives is assumed to have an assimilating role due to the enhancement of local human capital such a union creates in the form of improved knowledge about host country institutions, language and customs as well as access to native spouses' networks and...

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Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation among Immigrants: 1980-2000

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Papps, Kerry L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

supply, a result that suggests that the female findings reflect notions of gender roles rather than overall work orientation … force participation rates work substantially more than women coming from countries with lower relative female labor supply …. Findings for another indicator of traditional gender roles, source country fertility rates, are broadly similar, with …

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A Political Economy of the Immigrant Assimilation: Internal Dynamics

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Within immigrant society different groups wish to help the migrants in different ways – immigrant societies are multi-layered and multi-dimensional. We examine the situation where there exists a foundation that has resources and that wishes to help the migrants. To do so they need migrant...

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The "Negative" Assimilation of Immigrants: A Special Case

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Research on the economic or labor market assimilation of immigrants has to date focused on the degree of improvement in their economic status with duration in the destination. This pattern has been found for all the immigrant receiving countries, time periods and data sets that have been...

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Negative and Positive Assimilation, Skill Transferability, and Linguistic Distance

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

There are two complementary models of immigrants’ economic and social adjustment – the positive assimilation model of Chiswick (1978, 1979), and the negative assimilation model of Chiswick and Miller (2011). The negative assimilation model is applicable for immigrants from countries that are...

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Assimilation and Integration of Immigrants in Europe

Aleksynska, Mariya; Algan, Yann - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper documents assimilation of immigrants in European destinations along cultural, civic, and economic dimensions, distinguishing by immigrants' generation, duration of stay, and origin. Based on the European Social Survey, it suggests that assimilation may have multiple facets, and take...

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