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Integration of Immigrants in Host Countries - What We Know and What Works

Frattini, Tommaso - 2017

Integration of immigrants is at the forefront of policy concerns in many countries. This paper starts by documenting that in most European countries immigrants face significant labour market disadvantages relative to natives. Then it discusses how public policies may affect immigrants'...

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Ethnic Goods and Immigrant Assimilation

Abdulloev, Ilhom - 2014

Some immigrants try to keep their ethnicity hidden while others become ever deeply more mired in their home culture. We argue that among immigrants this struggle manifests itself in the ethnic goods they choose to consume. Different types of ethnic goods have vastly different effects on...

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(The Struggle for) Refugee Integration into the Labour Market : Evidence from Europe

Fasani, Francesco - 2018

In this paper, we use repeated cross-sectional survey data to study the labour market performance of refugees across several EU countries and over time. In the first part, we document that labour market outcomes for refugees are consistently worse than those for other comparable migrants. The...

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On the Economics and Politics of Refugee Migration

Dustmann, Christian - 2017

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of refugee migration, with emphasis on the current refugee crisis. After first reviewing the institutional framework laid out by the Geneva Convention for Refugees, we demonstrate that, despite numerous attempts at developing a common European asylum...

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Immigration : The European Experience

Dustmann, Christian; Frattini, Tommaso - 2012

This paper first presents a brief historical overview of immigration in Europe. We then provide (and distinguishing between EU and non-EU immigrants) a comprehensive analysis of the skill structures of immigrants and their labor market integration in the different European countries, their...

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The Effect of Immigrant Peers in Vocational Schools

Frattini, Tommaso; Meschi, Elena - 2018

This paper provides new evidence on how the presence of immigrant peers in the classroom affects native student achievement. The analysis is based on longitudinal administrative data on two cohorts of vocational training students in Italy’s largest region. Vocational training institutions...

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Dependent self-employment : theory, practice and policy

Williams, Colin C.; Horodnic, Ioana Alexandra - 2019

Contents: 1. Introduction -- Part I: Theorizing dependent self-employment -- 2. Dependent self-employment in broader context: Trends in employment -- 3. Dominant depictions of dependent self-employment -- Part II: Dependent self-employment in practice -- 4. Prevalence and trends -- 5. Who...

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Entrepreneurship and the shadow economy

Sauka, Arnis (ed.); Schneider, Friedrich (ed.); … - 2016

entrepreneurship / José Ernesto Amorós, Juan Pablo Couyoumdjian, Oscar Cristi and Maria Minniti -- 2. Estimating the size of the shadow … shadow economy in the European Union / Colin C. Williams, Ioana A Horodnic and Jan Windebank -- 5. Informal entrepreneurship … Abdih and Leandro Medina -- 9. What is to be done about entrepreneurship in the shadow economy? / Colin C. Williams. …

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The hidden enterprise culture : entrepreneurship in the underground economy

Williams, Colin C. - 2006

economy in enterprise creation, entrepreneurship and small business development has been largely ignored despite its …pt. 1. Entrepreneurship and the underground economy : the missing link -- pt. 2. The extent and nature of underground …

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