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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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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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763759

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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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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Sexual Orientation, Disclosure and Earnings

Plug, Erik; Berkhout, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Gay/bisexual workers tend to earn less than other men. Does this occur because of discrimination or because of selection? In this paper we address this question and collect new information on workplace disclosure to separate out discrimination effects from selection effects. Using a large sample...

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The Economic Progress of American Jewry: From 18th Century Merchants to 21st Century Professionals

Chiswick, Barry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Jewish women and 28 percent of non-Jewish white women were in professional jobs. Differences by gender were smaller than …

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The Economics of Language: An Introduction and Overview

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

This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and benefits associated with this characteristic embodied in the...

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Mind the Gap: A Detailed Picture of the Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap in the UK Using Longitudinal Data Between 1978 and 2006

Lemos, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Using the underexplored, sizeable and long Lifetime Labour Market Database (LLMDB) we estimated the immigrant-native earnings gap across the entire earnings distribution, across continents of nationality and across cohorts of arrival in the UK between 1978 and 2006. We exploited the longitudinal...

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ORU Analyses of Immigrant Earnings in Australia, with International Comparisons

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation/required education/undereducation (ORU) framework (Hartog, 2000) and a decomposition of the native-born/foreign-born differential in the payoff to schooling developed by Chiswick and Miller...

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Educational Mismatch: Are High-Skilled Immigrants Really Working at High-Skilled Jobs and the Price They Pay If They Aren't?

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper examines the incidence of the mismatch of the educational attainment and the occupation of employment, and the impact of this mismatch on the earnings, of high-skilled adult male immigrants in the US labor market. Analyses for high-skilled adult male native-born workers are also...

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