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Explaining the Labour Market Outcomes of First, Second and Third Generation Immigrants in Canada

Tu, Jiong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

by subsequently interacting educational attainments with ethnicity, mother tongue and city of residence support these …

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The Impact of Immigration on the Labour Market Outcomes of Native-Born Canadians

Tu, Jiong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Although immigration has become a major growth factor for Canadian labour force, there is little economic research on the effect of immigration on native-born Canadians' labour market performance. This paper examines the relationship between changes in the share of immigrants by sub-labour...

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Bias in the Legal Profession: Self-Assessed versus Statistical Measures of Discrimination

Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Helland, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

(i) client discrimination; (ii) other work-related discrimination; and (iii) harassment. Overall, our results indicate … that conventional measures of earnings discrimination are not closely linked to the racial and gender bias that new lawyers … disparity in self-assessed bias across gender and racial groups. …

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Ethnic Disparities in the Graduate Labour Market

Zorlu, Aslan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

analysis provides novel evidence for the magnitude and the origin of ethnic wage differentials by gender. In general, ethnic …

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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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EU Enlargement under Continued Mobility Restrictions: Consequences for the German Labor Market

Brenke, Karl; Yuksel, Mutlu; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

The numbers of migrants from the accessions countries have clearly increased since the enlargement of the EU in 2004. Following enlargement, the net inflow of EU8 immigrants has become 2.5 times larger than the four-year period before enlargement. Poles constitute the largest immigrant group...

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Sizing It Up: Labor Migration Lessons of the EU Enlargement to 27

Constant, Amelie F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

While economists were pointing out the advantages of the EU enlargement, politicians and policymakers were raising grave concerns about the significant political and economic differences between the newcomer states (EU12) and the "old Europe" of EU15. The major point of apprehension was related...

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Persistencies in the Labour Market

Frijters, Paul; Lindeboom, Maarten; den Berg, Gerard J. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

transition rates. We focus on hysteresis effects of the durations and incidence of previous spells out of work. We estimate … rates to work, and sometimes also from work. The quantitative magnitude of persistency and hysteresis effects on inequality …

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