Narrow search
Showing 1 - 5 of 5
Cover Image
Immigrants' assimilation process in a segmented labor market
Alcobendas, Miguel Angel; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2009
While much of the literature on immigrants' assimilation has focused on countries with a large tradition of receiving immigrants and with flexible labor markets, very little is known on how immigrants adjust to other types of host economies. With its severe dual labor market, and an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271343
Cover Image
Moroccans', Ecuadorians' and Romanians' assimilation in Spain
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; Vegas, Raquel - 2012
Using the 2007 Encuesta Nacional de Immigración (ENI), we find that male migrants follow a similar labor and legal assimilation pattern in Spain regardless of their nationality (with Romanians faring worse in terms of legal status but better in terms of employment status at arrival). Among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282168
Cover Image
Moroccans' assimilation in Spain: Family-based versus labor-based migration
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; Vegas, Raquel - 2012
An important immigration policy regime endogeneity, and immigrants' unobserved heterogeneity. To address the first problem, we focus in a country with an unprecedented immigration boom that lets immigrants freely into a country: Spain. To address the second problem, we focus on a large and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282248
Cover Image
Wage and occupational assimilation by skill level
Alcobendas, Miguel Angel; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; … - 2012
While much of the literature on immigrants' assimilation has focused on countries with a large tradition of receiving immigrants and with flexible labor markets, very little is known on how immigrants adjust to other types of host economies. With its severe dual labor market, and an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282508
Cover Image
R&D drivers in young innovative companies
García-Quevedo, José; Pellegrino, Gabriele; … - 2011
autoregressive nature of innovation. Using a large longitudinal dataset comprising Spanish manufacturing firms over the period 1990 … in the case of the YICs, suggesting that their innovation behaviour is less persistent and more erratic. Moreover, our … results suggest that firm and market characteristics play a distinct role in boosting the innovation activity of firms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282464