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We study how licensing, certification and unionisation affect the wages of natives and migrants and their representation among licensed, certified, and unionized workers. We provide evidence of a dual role of labor market institutions, which both screen workers based on unobservable...
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While general ethnic disadvantages are well documented, much less is known about coinciding disadvantages of ethnic origin and gender. Based on theoretical arguments of human capital theory, sociocultural approaches, labour market segmentation theory, and discrimination mechanisms, we...
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Previous research has found identity to be relevant for international migration, but has neglected internal mobility as … in the case of the Great Chinese Migration. However, the context of the identities of migrants and their adaption in the … migration process is likely to be quite different. The gap is closed by examining social assimilation and the effect on the …
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international migration. Examining social identity and labor market outcomes in China, the country with the largest internal …
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robust to controlling for potentially endogenous return migration and labor force participation. Controls for fixed effects …
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Heterogeneity in the ethnic composition of Germany's immigrant population renders general conclusions on the degree of economic integration difficult. Using a rich longitudinal data-set, this paper tests for differences in economic assimilation profiles of four entry cohorts of foreign-born...
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for theoretical models which predict different remittance time paths between return and permanent migrants. -- Migration … ; Remittances ; German Socio Economic Panel …
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matching, in a comparative analysis between immigrants and natives. Using the EU Labour Force Survey for the year 2012, and …
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We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and educational decisions and distinguishing particularly between first- and second-generation immigrants and between source country groups. First, for immigrant adolescents, we show...
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