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investigate the importance of characteristics related to immigration for the labour market position of Turkish immigrants. We use … explained partly by differences in immigration rules. In Germany economic self-reliance is more important than in the …
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after immigration, followed by family-based visa recipients, with refugees having the lowest proficiency. These differences … disappear by 3 ½ years after immigration for speaking skills, but they persist for reading and writing skills. The variables …
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This paper investigates the labour market and welfare changes experienced by enlarged-EU migrants before and after 2007. For this purpose, we briefly review the Spanish socio-economic institutional background, as well as its migration policy towards enlarged-EU citizens. Then we discuss the...
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impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by …
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studied in Spain. Whatever their home country, they obtain relatively high wage returns to education, including the part not …
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Two issues have taken center stage in the recent debates about U.S. immigration policy: one, illegal immigration and … evidence from the history of U.S. immigration policy, the experiences of different types of U.S. immigrants, and cross …
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We analyze the occupational mobility of immigrants between their origin countries and Spain and its determinants. We use microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes to compute an internationally harmonized occupational status index (ISEI) that permits to quantify and properly analyze...
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vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher … constitutes a case in point. However, little attention has been given to examining the success of vocational education in raising …, we examine the efficacy of vocational education in raising the wage levels of four such groups: recent immigrants, Jews …
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its severe dual labor market, and an unprecedented immigration boom, Spain presents a quite unique experience to analyze …
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economic success goes both ways. Using data on the study of foreign languages during compulsory education in European countries …
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