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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371175
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004999162
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Remittances and Gender: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence
Holst, Elke; Schäfer, Andrea; Schrooten, Mechthild - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In this paper, we focus on network- and gender-specific determinants of remittances, which are often explained …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836668
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Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance? Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the literature, the question of identifying this relationship empirically has only begun to be explored. Using a unique representative survey of 1500 immigrants in the Greater Dublin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884255
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Computer Skills, Destination Language Proficiency and the Earnings of Natives and Immigrants
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Using data from the 2001 Census of Population and Housing in Australia, this paper investigates the determinants, and consequences for earnings, of computer use by both the native born and the foreign born. Focussing on the foreign born, the multivariate analyses show that recent arrivals are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763562
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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
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008574578
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Egyptian Men Working Abroad: Labor Supply Responses by the Women Left Behind
Binzel, Christine; Assaad, Ragui - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
find a decrease in wage work in both rural and urban areas. However, women living in rural areas and affected by migration … are much more likely to be employed in non-wage activities (i.e. unpaid family work) and subsistence work compared to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876570
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Are There Gender and Country of Origin Differences in Immigrant Labor Market Outcomes across European Destinations?
Adsera, Alicia; Chiswick, Barry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
labor market performance of immigrants across gender related to duration in the destination, schooling, age at immigration … those in Sweden, Denmark, Luxembourg or Spain the worst, particularly among non-EU born migrants. Gender differences are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761665
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An Anatomy of Racial and Ethnic Trends in Male Earnings
Winters, John V.; Hirsch, Barry - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Progress in narrowing black-white earnings differences has been far from continuous, with some of the apparent progress resulting from labor force withdrawal among lower-skilled African Americans. This paper builds on prior research and documents racial and ethnic differences in male earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252284