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result in highly restrictive immigration policies. Promoting integration of migrants into the host country would go a long … economic assimilation of immigrants, somewhat less attention has been devoted to other - and equally crucial - dimensions of … migrants’ integration, namely the process of social assimilation. The aim of this paper is to take a close look at migrants …
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Our study examines the empirical link between the naturalization of immigrants and their subsequent employment status in France from 1968 to 1999. For that purpose, we use longitudinal data coming from a panel dataset which follows almost 1% of the French population from 1968 to 1999 through...
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immigrants’ ethnic persistence and assimilation. The estimated effect of these measures on risk proclivity suggests that … could also help explain differences in economic assimilation of immigrants. …
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There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....
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differentiating between actual and planned citizenship. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel, we measure the impact that integration … characteristics. A robust finding is that German citizenship is very valuable to female immigrants and the generally better educated … on citizenship acquisition. While a longer residence in Germany has a negative influence on actual or future …
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Over the last decades, both Canada and Sweden have liberalized citizenship regulations for permanent residents. During … the same period, immigration patterns by country of birth have changed substantially, with an increasing number of … immigrants arriving from non-western countries. The aim of this paper is to explore the link between citizenship and employment …
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One of the most controversial aspects of immigration policy is the impact of foreigners on labour market outcomes of … second part we offer a further argument for a potential detrimental effect of immigration: if wages are negotiated at the …
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This Paper addresses the question: why and where do immigrants cluster? We examine the relative importance and interaction of two alternative explanations of immigrant clustering: (1) network externalities and (2) herd behavior. We advance the theory by presenting a framework encompassing both...
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-skilled immigration wave was one of the main determinants for the fast growth of the Israeli economy in the 1990s. In this paper, I use a …
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As we approach the 21st Century, Australia needs to thoroughly its future population and immigration policies. The …
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