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Zorlu, Aslan - 2011

This paper examines the speed of the occupational adjustment of immigrants using Labour Force Surveys 2004 and 2005 from Statistics Netherlands. The analysis provides new evidence that immigrants start with jobs at the lower levels of skill distribution. Their occupational achievement improves...

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Who will be idol? The importance of social networks for winning on reality shows

Heizler, Odelia; Kimhi, Ayal - 2010

This paper examines, both theoretically and empirically, the effect of social networks and belonging to minority groups (or race) on the probability of winning in reality television shows. We develop a theoretical model that studies viewer behavior by presenting a framework of competition...

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Work and money: payoffs by ethnic identity and gender

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

Upon arrival in the host country, immigrants undergo a fundamental identity crisis. Their ethnic identity being … by the ethnosizer, a newly established measure to parameterize a person's ethnic identity, using individual information … individuals end up varies among immigrants even from the same country. Moreover, the quest for ethnic identity affects women and …

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The Determination of a Migration Wave Using Ethnicity and Community Ties

Locher, Lilo - 2001

If people come to live in a country different from their nation state, due to border shifts, expulsion, or migration, they adopt some of the new country?s habits after some time. This paper investigates their (return) migration decision when they have been restricted to live in the foreign...

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Racial and Economic Factors in Attitudes to Immigration

Dustmann, Christian; Preston, Ian - 2000

Hostility towards minorities may sometimes have economic rather than racial motives. Labour market fears, or concerns about the welfare system, are often believed to manifest themselves in hostile attitudes towards population groups that are considered to be competitors for these resources. The...

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Why Are Black-Owned Businesses Less Successful than White-Owned Businesses? : The Role of Families, Inheritances, and Business Human Capital

Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia M. - 2004

Four decades ago, Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan made the argument that the black family "was not strong enough to create those extended clans that elsewhere were most helpful for businessmen and professionals." Using data from the confidential and restricted access Characteristics of...

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An anatomy of racial and ethnic trends in male earnings

Winters, John V.; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2012

Progress in narrowing black-white earnings differences has been far from continuous, with some of the apparent progress resulting from labor force withdrawal among lower-skilled African Americans. This paper builds on prior research and documents racial and ethnic differences in male earnings...

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Did employer sanctions lose their bite? Labor market effects of immigrant legalization

Lofstrom, Magnus; Hill, Laura; Hayes, Joseph - 2010

Taking advantage of the ability to identify immigrants who were unauthorized to work prior to obtaining Legal Permanent Resident status, we use the New Immigrant Survey to examine whether lacking legal status to work in the U.S. constrains employment outcomes of illegal immigrants. With the...

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Immigration: The European experience

Dustmann, Christian; Frattini, Tommaso - 2011

This paper first presents a brief historical overview of immigration in Europe. We then provide (and distinguishing between EU and non-EU immigrants) a comprehensive analysis of the skill structures of immigrants and their labor market integration in the different European countries, their...

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Immigrant wage and employment assimilation: A comparison of methods

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hanel, Barbara; McVicar, Duncan - 2012

We compare alternative methods for estimating immigrant wage and employment assimilation using unique panel data over 2001-2009 for a large, nationally-representative sample of immigrants. Previous assimilation estimates have been mainly based on cross-sectional data and have therefore suffered...

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