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The role of firms and job mobility in the assimilation of immigrants : former Soviet Union jews in Israel 1990-2019
Arellano-Bover, Jaime; San, Shmuel - 2024
We study how job mobility, firms, and firm-ladder climbing can shape immigrants’ labor market success. Our context is the mass migration of former Soviet Union Jews to Israel during the 1990s. Once in Israel, these immigrants faced none of the legal barriers that are typically posed by...
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The integration of migrants in the German labor market : evidence over 50 years
Berbée, Paul; Stuhler, Jan - 2023
Germany has become the second-most important destination for migrants worldwide. Using all waves from the microcensus …
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Earnings assimilation of post-reunification East German migrants in West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Sauer, Irakli - 2024
We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We … to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The analysis uses administrative as well as survey data. The results … suggest that East Germans faced significant initial earnings disadvantages in West Germany, even conditional on age and …
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How job changes affect people's lives : evidence from subjective well-being data
Chadi, Adrian; Hetschko, Clemens - 2016
For representative German panel data, we show that voluntary job switching leads to relatively high levels of life satisfaction, though only for some time, whereas the impact of exogenously triggered job changes is ambiguous. Risk aversion interacts negatively with this effect in life...
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The labor market impact of undocumented immigrants : job creation vs. job competition
Albert, Christoph - 2017
This paper explores the impact of undocumented as opposed to documented immigration in a model featuring search frictions and non-random hiring that is consistent with novel empirical evidence presented. In this framework, undocumented immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their...
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Estimating immigrant earnings profiles when migrations are temporary
Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2016
The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many - if not most - migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...
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"Cultural persistence" of health capital : evidence from European migrants
Costa-Font, Joan; Sato, Azusa - 2016
persistence and association of health capital assessments of first and second-generation migrants with that of their ancestral … assessments by an average of 16%, and that of second generation migrants between 11% and 25%. Estimates are heterogeneous by …
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Labor market competition and the assimilation of immigrants
Albert, Christoph; Glitz, Albrecht; Llull, Joan - 2021
In this paper, we show that the wage assimilation of immigrants is the result of the intricate interplay between individual skill accumulation and dynamic equilibrium effects in the labor market. When immigrants and natives are imperfect substitutes, increasing immigrant inflows widen the wage...
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Delayed integration of mobile labor : a principle for coordinating taxation, social security, and social assistance
Richter, Wolfram F. - 2001
Delayed Integration is a rule for assigning mobile individuals to jurisdictions for the purpose of taxation, social security, and social assistance. It is a compromise between the Origin Principle and the Employment Principle. Individuals are assigned to the jurisdiction to which they move only...
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The cushioning effect of immigrant mobility
Özgüzel, Cem - 2021
During the Great Recession, immigrants reacted to the drop in labour demand in Spain through internal migration or leaving the country. Consequently, provinces lost 13.5% of their immigrants or - 3% of the total labour supply, on average. Using municipal registers and longitudinal administrative...
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