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Spatial changes in labour market inequality

Lindley, Joanne; Machin, Stephen - 2013

important features of labour market polarization, as they have resulted in faster employment growth in high skill occupations …

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Long-run patterns of labour market polarisation : evidence from German micro data

Bachmann, Ronald; Çim, Merve; Green, Colin - 2018

The past four decades have witnessed dramatic changes in the structure of employment. In particular, the rapid increase in computational power has led to large-scale reductions in employment in jobs that can be described as intensive in routine tasks. These jobs have been shown to be...

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Beyond conflict : long-term labour market integration of internally displaced persons in post-socialist countries

Ivlevs, Artjoms; Veliziotis, Michail - 2017

and conflict within these countries fare on the labour market in the long term - 10 to 15 years after their displacement … come from the Life in Transition II survey, conducted in post-conflict, post-socialist countries in 2010 (n=10 … conflict 10-15 years ago are more likely to be long-term unemployed, experience a recent job loss and work informally. We also …

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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2006

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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Measuring the importance of labor market networks

Hellerstein, Judith K. (contributor); … - 2008

importance of network effects for groups broken out by race, ethnicity, and various measures of skill, for networks generated by … ; race ; ethnicity ; immigrants …

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Migration and Culture

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2010

Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding openly into the discussion, usually under some pseudonym. The authors bring culture into the open. They are concerned with how culture manifests itself in the migration process...

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Labor market outcomes of immigrants and non-citizens in the EU : an East-West comparison

Kahanec, Martin (contributor); Zaiceva, Anzelika (contributor) - 2008

The starkly different histories and institutions in the eastern and western member states of the European Union (EU) suggest different roles of being non-native in these two regions. In this paper we study the roles of foreign origin and citizenship in the comparative East-West perspective. Our...

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Gender, economic development and Islam : a perspective from France

Adida, Claire L.; Laitin, David D.; Valfort, Marie-Anne - 2012

national origin and ethnicity, and on experimental as well as survey evidence collected in France, puts this syllogism to a …

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An expert stakeholder's view on European integration challenges

Constant, Amelie; Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010

The standard approach of analyzing gaps in social and labor market outcomes of different ethnic groups relies on analysis of statistical data about the affected groups. In this paper we go beyond this approach by measuring the views of expert stakeholders involved in minority integration. This...

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The unaccompanied refugee minors and the Swedish labour market

Çelikaksoy, Aycan; Wadensjö, Eskil - 2015

More unaccompanied refugee children arrive to and get a residence permit in Sweden than in any other country in Europe. The number of children who arrives is increasing fast. The Swedish experiences are therefore of great interest also for other countries. In this paper we study the labour...

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