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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. - 2005
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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A macro-level analysis of adult-age language learning
Übelmesser, Silke; Weingarten, Severin - 2017
This article investigates the macro-level drivers of adult-age language learning. We construct a new dataset that covers German language learning in 77 countries (including Germany) for 1992-2006. Fixed-effects regressions show that language learning in the EU is strongly associated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663341
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Immigrants' contribution to innovativeness : evidence from a non-selective immigration country
Candel-Haug, Katharina; Cuntz, Alexander; Falck, Oliver - 2018
The economic consequences of migration are hotly debated and a main topic of recent populist movements across Europe … identification, we exploit a historical episode in the Polish migration history to Germany before the fall of the Iron Curtain and … construct a shift-share instrument. Our results differ from findings for high-skilled migration to the United States, which is …
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Not welcome anymore : the effect of electoral incentives on the reception of refugees
Gamalerio, Matteo - 2018
Do electoral incentives affect immigration policies? I study this question in the setting of Italian municipalities making decisions about the reception of refugees. The localized control of the reception policy (SPRAR), combined with the exogenous timing of policy decisions and staggered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011898665
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Skill-biased imports, skill acquisition, and migration
Li, Lei; Fan, Jingting - 2023
local skill share and that both skill acquisition and migration play a role. We develop and quantify a spatial equilibrium … migration linkages between cities. Counterfactual experiments suggest that the growth in capital goods imports in China between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014304459
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Earnings assimilation of post-reunification East German migrants in West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Sauer, Irakli - 2024
robust to controlling for potentially endogenous return migration and labor force participation. Controls for fixed effects …
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Education-occupation mismatch of migrants in the Italian labour market: the effect of social networks
Van Wolleghem, Pierre Georges; De Angelis, Marina; … - 2019
Whilst migration has become a structural feature of most European countries, the integration of foreigners in the …
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Employment Effects of Dispersal Policies on Refugee Immigrants, Part II: Empirical Evidence
Damm, Anna Piil; Rosholm, Michael - 2003
the reservation wage. Hence, restrictions on placed refugees? subsequent migration (or on their initial choice of location …
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Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Policy in Europe
Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2004
The number of refugees worldwide is now 12 million, up from 3 million in the early 1970s. And the number seeking asylum in the developed world increased tenfold, from about 50,000 per annum to half a million over the same period. Governments and international agencies have grappled with the twin...
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Immigrant Assimilation and Welfare Participation: Do Immigrants Assimilate Into or Out-of Welfare
Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999
This paper analyzes differences in welfare utilization between immigrants and natives in Sweden using a large panel data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased in Sweden in the 1990?s. We find that immigrants use welfare to a greater extent...
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