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Employment Assimilation of Immigrants in the Netherlands
Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
considerable difficulties in the Dutch labour market. The most remarkable conclusion is the irrelevance of education for socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256701
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Unequal Chances on a Flexible Labor Market, The Case of the Netherlands
Bijwaard, Govert E.; Veenman, Justus - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
Labor markets in Western countries are becoming more and more flexible, thereby meeting the needs of employers. Yet the new flexibility also offers opportunities to workers, while at the same time bears the risk of long-term exclusion. This paper deals with unequal chances on the contemporary...
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Migration and Immigrants: The Case of the Netherlands
Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001
This paper surveys migration to and from the Netherlands since thesixteenth century with an emphasis on the post-war period. Existingstudies on the labour market performance of immigrants and ethnicminorities are considered and some new results from our recentresearch are presented.<P> See also...</p>
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Language Proficiency of Migrants: The Relation with Job Satisfaction and Skill Matching
Bloemen, Hans G. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
satisfaction. We use subjective survey information about job satisfaction and the fit between the migrant's education and skill … language proficiency and economic outcomes has been on the relation between earnings and indicators for language proficiency …, we find evidence for a positive relationship between indicators for language proficiency and satisfaction with work type …
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The Rationality behind Immigration Preferences
Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Henkens, Kène - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
What drives stated preferences about the number of foreigners? Is it self-interest as stressed by the political economy of immigration? Does social interaction affect this preference or is the immigration preference completely in line with the preference for the aggregate population size? In...
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Same Work, Lower Grade? Student Ethnicity and Teachers’ Subjective Assessments
Ewijk, Reyn van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
likely to be indirect than direct.This discussion paper resulted in a publication in 'Economics of Education Review' (30 …
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The Impact of a Culturally Diverse Workforce on Firms' Market Size: An Empirical Investigation on Germany
Brunow, Stephan; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
There is evidence from the literature that firms enjoy higher productivity levels when the workforce employed is culturally more diverse. It is an open question whether this gain is utilized to shift the supply curve and set lower prices, in order to achieve a higher demand and possibly higher...
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Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance: A Field Experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the impact of ethnic diversity on the performance of business teams using a field experiment. We follow 550 students who set up 45 real companies as part of their curriculum in an international...
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How Diverse can Spatial Measures of Cultural Diversity be? Results from Monte Carlo Simulations on an Agent-Based Model
Arribas-Bel, Daniel; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
Cultural diversity is a complex and multi-faceted concept. Commonly used quantitative measures of the spatial distribution of culturally-defined groups 'such as segregation, isolation or concentration indexes' are often only capable of identifying just one aspect of this distribution. The...
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The Effect of Immigration on Native Earnings
Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000
markets is considered. It is shown thatethnic minorities fromdeveloping countries have a positive effect on the earnings of … minoritiesfrom EU-countries may havea negative effect on the earnings of high skilled natives and a positive effecton the earnings of … low skillednatives. Secondly, the effect of an immigration flow by 5% of the total labourforce on native earnings …
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