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The paper studies opinions and attitudes towards immigrants and minorities and their interactions with other barriers …
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The social and labor market integration of ethnic minorities in the EU is still a major political, societal and economic challenge. Based on evidence presented in Kahanec and Zimmermann (2011), this policy paper proposes an agenda for diversity and minority integration in the European labor...
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The standard approach of analyzing gaps in social and labor market outcomes of different ethnic groups relies on analysis of statistical data about the affected groups. In this paper we go beyond this approach by measuring the views of expert stakeholders involved in minority integration. This...
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This paper analyses the role of social capital on immigrants' labour market outcomes. We use the "principal component …
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Blacks and Hispanics when compared to whites in the U.S. However, that is not the case for immigrants relative to the natives …
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We use Swedish register data to compare the employment and income of immigrants who intermarry natives versus those of … immigrants who intramarry other immigrants in Sweden. We conduct the same analyses on three subsamples: labour migrants, refugees … and family migrants. We find that intermarried immigrants outperformed intramarried ones in employment rates and salaries …
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In the debate over immigration reform, it is frequently asserted that immigrants take jobs that U.S. natives do not … immigrants are more physically arduous than the jobs held by U.S. natives. However, data from the California Work and Health … Survey on self-reported physical job demands indicate that immigrants do not perceive their jobs as requiring more physical …
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The influx of immigrants has shifted the ethnic composition of public schools in many states including North Carolina …
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Using matched employer-employee data, we analyse the impact of immigrants on natives' employment in Portugal. Using … different model specifications, we show that the natives and immigrants are 'complements' at most occupation levels, in the … the skills spectrum are not affected by the presence of immigrants as well. …
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This study quantifies the disadvantage in the formation of literacy skills of immigrants that arises from the … immigrants face significant initial disadvantages of linguistic origin that exceed existing differentials across wage …
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