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Occupational adjustment of immigrants
Zorlu, Aslan - 2011
This paper examines the speed of the occupational adjustment of immigrants using Labour Force Surveys 2004 and 2005 from Statistics Netherlands. The analysis provides new evidence that immigrants start with jobs at the lower levels of skill distribution. Their occupational achievement improves...
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Pitfalls of immigrant inclusion into the European welfare state
Kahanec, Martin; Kim, Anna Myunghee; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011
This paper's main purpose is to gauge immigrants' demand for social assistance and services and identify the key barriers to social and labor market inclusion of immigrants in the European Union. The data from an online primary survey of experts from organizations working on immigrant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282416
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Attitudes towards immigrants, other integration barriers, and their veracity
Constant, Amelie F.; Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008
The paper studies opinions and attitudes towards immigrants and minorities and their interactions with other barriers to minorities' economic integration. Specifically, we consider the minority experts' own perceptions about these issues, the veracities and repercussions of unfavorable attitudes...
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The effect of ethnic identity on the employment of immigrants
Drydakis, Nick - 2012
This study evaluates the effect of ethnic identity on the employment level of immigrants in Greece. Treating ethnic … identity as a composite of key cultural elements the estimations suggest that employment is positively associated with … by setting up hypotheses, and directly measuring immigrants' ethnic identity commitments. The current results have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282224
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Moving to segregation: Evidence from 8 Italian cities
Boeri, Tito; de Philippis, Marta; Patacchini, Eleonora; … - 2012
We use a new dataset and a novel identification strategy to analyze the effects of residential segregation on the employment of migrants in 8 Italian cities. Our data, which are representative of the population of both legal and illegal migrants, allow us to measure segregation at the very local...
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Immigration, obesity and labor market outcomes in the UK
Averett, Susan; Argys, Laura; Kohn, Jennifer L. - 2012
We estimate the dual effects of immigration and obesity on labor market outcomes in the UK. There is only one other paper that has estimated these dual effects on a sample of immigrants to the US. We use the British Household Panel Survey, which contains information on height and weight for 2004...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282187
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Temporary Employment Agencies : A Route for Immigrants to Enter the Labour Market?
Andersson, Pernilla; Wadensjö, Eskil - 2004
We study immigrants in temporary employment agencies in Sweden using a unique data set that covers all aged 16-64 who were employed by temporary employment agencies (TEAs) in Sweden in November 1999, with information on their employment status in 1998 and 2000. We find that young people, women,...
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TIPping the scales towards greater employment chances? Evaluation of a Trial Introduction Program (TIP) for newly-arrived immigrants based on random program assignment
Andersson Joona, Pernilla; Nekby, Lena - 2009
A Trial Introduction Program (TIP) for newly-arrived immigrants to Sweden was implemented from October 2006 to June 2008 in order to meet the main criticisms directed at existing introduction programs. Two primary innovations were introduced, flexible language instruction parallel with other...
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Ethnicity, job search and labor market reintegration of the unemployed
Constant, Amelie F.; Kahanec, Martin; Rinne, Ulf; … - 2009
ethnic identity: the ethnosizer. To shed further light on the native-migrant differences in economic outcomes, we investigate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269464
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Migration, ethnicity and economic integration
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
This chapter deals with the economic and ethnic diversity caused by international labor migration, and their economic integration possibilities. It brings together three strands of literature dealing with the neoclassical economic assimilation, ethnic identities and attitudes towards immigrants...
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