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and find that a ten-percentage-point increase in the initial conational share lowers employment rates by 3.1 percentage … effect on wages conditional on employment. The employment effect appears to be due to the effect of differences in the …
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This paper investigates how the size of co-ethnic networks at the time of arrival affect the economic success of immigrants in Germany. Applying panel analysis with a large set of fixed effects and controls, we isolate the association between initial network size and long-run immigrant outcomes....
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Denmark has accepted refugees from a large variety of countries and for more than four decades. Denmark has also …
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migrants and refugees relative to family migrants, for men and individuals below the median age, and for individuals with …
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. Discussing the ways in which refugees and economic migrants are differently selected and so might be expected to perform … differently in a host country's labor market, we examine employment and wages for these groups over time after arrival. There is … migrants. While the gaps between the groups can be seen to decrease on a timescale of a decade or two, this is more pronounced …
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This paper establishes a new fact about immigration policies: legalization has long-term effects on formal employment …
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How does previous exposure to massive immigrant inflows affect concerns about current immigration and the integration of refugees? To answer this question, we investigate attitudes toward newcomers among natives and previous immigrants. In areas that in the 1990s received higher inflows of...
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Germany has become the second-most important destination for migrants worldwide. Using all waves from the microcensus … employment gaps between immigrant and native men decline after arrival, they remain large for most cohorts; the average gap after … systematic trend. Still, economic conditions do matter, and employment collapsed in some cohorts after structural shocks hit the …
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We analyze an immigration reform in Denmark that tightened refugee immigrants' eligibility criteria for permanent … intended, the overall employment of those affected decreased while their average language proficiency remained largely …
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We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We compare their wage assimilation to that of ethnic German immigrants from Eastern Bloc countries and international immigrants to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The...
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