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Ethnic enclaves and welfare cultures : quasi-experimental evidence
Åslund, Olof (contributor); Fredriksson, Peter (contributor) - 2005
We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy. We distinguish between the quantity of contacts the number of individuals of the same ethnicityand the quality of contacts welfare use among members of the ethnic group. OLS...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002749784
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Ethnic identity and the employment outcomes of immigrants : evidence from France
Delaporte, Isaure - 2019
. The results show that having multiple identities improves the employment outcomes of the migrants and contribute to help …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022260
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Naturalization and labor market performance of immigrants in Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Saif, Salwan - 2018
exploit a reform of naturalization rules in an instrumental variable estimation. In our sample of recent immigrants, linear … market outcomes do not benefit significantly from naturalization. Naturalization reduces the risks of unemployment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011898989
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Gender and ethnicity : married immigrants in Britain
Dustmann, Christian (contributor);  … - 2005
In this paper we investigate the economic activity of married or cohabiting female immigrants in Britain. We distinguish between two immigrant groups: foreign-born females who belong to an ethnic minority group and their husbands, and foreign-born white females and their husbands. We compare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003204026
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Indian entrepreneurial success in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom
Fairlie, Robert W.; Krashinsky, Harry A.; … - 2013
Indian immigrants in the United States and other wealthy countries are successful in entrepreneurship. Using Census data from the three largest developed countries receiving Indian immigrants in the world -- the United States, United Kingdom and Canada -- we examine the performance of Indian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010212363
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Immigration, unemployment and wages : new causality evidence from the United Kingdom
Tunali, Çiğdem Börke; Fidrmuc, Jan; Campos, Nauro - 2017 - This version: April 4, 2017
unemployment and wages in aggregate analysis. We do find, however, evidence of distributional effects when accounting for human … capital of non-migrants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646817
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Time use, unemployment, and well-being : an empirical analysis using British time-use data
Hoang, Thi Truong An; Knabe, Andreas - 2019
less time at work outweighs the negative emotional effect of unemployment during leisure episodes, such that the unemployed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011992330
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Is a sorrow shared a sorrow doubled? : parental unemployment and the life satisfaction of adolescent children
Borah, Melanie; Knabe, Andreas; Lücke, Christine - 2023
This paper examines possible spillover effects of parental unemployment on the subjective wellbeing of 12- to 21-year …-old children. Using German panel data (SOEP), we show that unemployment of fathers and mothers is negatively associated with their … unemployment has negative effects, while no effect of fathers' unemployment can be detected. In subgroup analyses, we do not find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014431287
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Friends' networks and job finding rates
Cappellari, Lorenzo; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2010
We investigate the effect of social interactions on labor market outcomes using a direct measure of social contacts based on information about individuals' three best friends and their characteristics. We examine the effect of the number of employed friends on the transition from non-employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008732321
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The extent and consequences of teacher biases against immigrants
Sahlström, Ellen; Silliman, Mikko - 2024
We study the extent and consequences of biases against immigrants exhibited by high school teachers in Finland. Compared to native students, immigrant students receive 0.06 standard deviation units lower scores from teachers than from blind graders. This effect is almost entirely driven by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014514923