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The European Union's strategy to raise employment is confronted with very low work participation among many minority … immigrants. Using unique German survey data, the paper identifies marked gender differences in the effects of ethnic …
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potentially important implications for post-immigration policies indicating that assimilation and integration policies may be …
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In this empirical paper we assess how labour market transitions and out- and repeated migration of immigrants are interrelated. We estimate a multi-state multiple spell competing risks model with four states: employed, unemployed receiving benefits, out-of-the-labour market (no benefits) and...
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In this paper, we analyse differences in the cyclical pattern of employment and wages of immigrants and natives for two large immigrant receiving countries, Germany and the UK. We show that, despite large differences in their immigrant populations, there are similar and significant differences...
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major immigration reforms in Germany, a country with a relatively weak record of immigrant assimilation. For identification …
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In this paper, we study the effects of immigration on natives' marriage, fertility, and family formation across US … aggregate migration flows, we find that immigration raised marriage rates, the probability of having children, and the … positive impact of immigration on native men's employment and occupational standing, which increased the supply of …
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wage gaps are the result of prejudice toward ethnic minority workers is virtually unknown. This study sets out to examine … what role prejudice play in the creation of the ethnic wage gap in one of Europe's most egalitarian countries, Sweden. The …
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This paper examines differences in China's ethnic majority and minority patterns of labor force participation and … measures of local economic conditions. We focus on six minority groups (Hui, Koreans, Manchu, Mongolians, Uygurs, and Zhuang …-wise comparisons between Han and minority women, we find that differences in coefficients account for more than 100% of the Han …
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effect on labor market outcomes of two distinct minority groups. My main finding is that employment quota significantly … increases the probability of acquiring a salaried job for one minority group and not the other. Their improved employment … outcome is also reflected in their higher household consumption expenditure. Overall, the effects vary within each minority …
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The number of unaccompanied minors has increased over the past ten years in Sweden, the European country that receives the most children from this group. Some of them emigrate after a period of time in Sweden, but the vast majority stay. Most of the arriving children are teenage boys who have...
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