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Labor market competition and the assimilation of immigrants
Albert, Christoph; Glitz, Albrecht; Llull, Joan - 2021
In this paper, we show that the wage assimilation of immigrants is the result of the intricate interplay between individual skill accumulation and dynamic equilibrium effects in the labor market. When immigrants and natives are imperfect substitutes, increasing immigrant inflows widen the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012602108
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The effect of social networks on migrants' labor market integration : a natural experiment
Gërxhani, Klarita; Kosyakova, Yuliya - 2020
Die empirische Identifikation des kausalen Effekts sozialer Netzwerke auf die wirtschaftliche Integration von Migranten … ist eine herausfordernde Aufgabe, da Migranten sich nicht zufällig nach (Wohn-)Orten mit größeren Möglichkeiten für … natürlich-experimentellen Datensatz von Flüchtlingen und anderen Migranten verwendet, die von deutschen Behörden exogen ihrem …
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The integration of migrants in the German labor market : evidence over 50 years
Berbée, Paul; Stuhler, Jan - 2023
Germany has become the second-most important destination for migrants worldwide. Using all waves from the microcensus, we study their labor market integration over the last 50 years, and document key differences to the US case. While the employment gaps between immigrant and native men decline...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014311910
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The integration of migrants in the German labor market : evidence over 50 years
Berbée, Paul; Stuhler, Jan - 2023
Germany has become the second-most important destination for migrants worldwide. Using all waves from the microcensus, we study their labor market integration over the last 50 years and highlight differences to the US case. Although the employment gaps between immigrant and native men decline...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014364702
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The role of firms and job mobility in the assimilation of immigrants : former Soviet Union jews in Israel 1990-2019
Arellano-Bover, Jaime; San, Shmuel - 2024
We study how job mobility, firms, and firm-ladder climbing can shape immigrants’ labor market success. Our context is the mass migration of former Soviet Union Jews to Israel during the 1990s. Once in Israel, these immigrants faced none of the legal barriers that are typically posed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014564132
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Earnings assimilation of post-reunification East German migrants in West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Sauer, Irakli - 2024
We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We compare their wage assimilation to that of ethnic German immigrants from Eastern Bloc countries and international immigrants to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The...
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EU enlargement and (temporary) migration : effects on labour market outcomes in Germany
Hammer, Luisa; Hertweck, Matthias S. - 2022
EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May 2011. Taking into account that not all immigrantsstay permanently and that outmigration flows are selective, this paper classifies recent EUimmigrants into “new arrivals” and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012821802
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Estimating immigrant earnings profiles when migrations are temporary
Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2016
The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many - if not most - migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011481390
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"Cultural persistence" of health capital : evidence from European migrants
Costa-Font, Joan; Sato, Azusa - 2016
Culture is an under-studied determinant of health production and seldom measured. This paper empirically examines the persistence and association of health capital assessments of first and second-generation migrants with that of their ancestral countries. We draw on European data from 30...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011497628
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Immigrants and gender roles : assimilation vs. culture
Blau, Francine D. - 2015
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women’s behavior in the United States - looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392486