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Immigrants in the UK and in West Germany - Relative Income Position, Income Portfolio, and Redistribution Effects
Büchel, Felix; Frick, Joachim R. - 2003
Based on data from the BHPS and the GSOEP, we analyse the economic performance of various ethnic groups in the UK and West Germany, as well as the effects of income redistribution on these populations. Taking the indigenous population of each country as the reference category, we find that, as a...
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Please Call Me John: Name Choice and the Assimilation of Immigrants in the United States, 1900-1930
Carneiro, Pedro; Lee, Sokbae; Reis, Hugo - 2016
The vast majority of immigrants to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century adopted first names that were common among natives. The rate of adoption of an American name increases with time in the US, although most immigrants adopt an American name within the first year of arrival....
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Ethnic Identity and Work
Constant, Amelie F. - 2014
remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic … identity is a major issue; even more challenging is to measure its impact on economic outcomes such as the probability to work … or the earnings of immigrants. The thin but burgeoning theoretical and empirical literature shows that ethnic identity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435280
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Ethnic Identity and Work
Constant, Amelie F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic … identity is a major issue; even more challenging is to measure its impact on economic outcomes such as the probability to work … or the earnings of immigrants. The thin but burgeoning theoretical and empirical literature shows that ethnic identity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959840
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Did employer sanctions lose their bite? Labor market effects of immigrant legalization
Lofstrom, Magnus; Hill, Laura; Hayes, Joseph - 2010
Taking advantage of the ability to identify immigrants who were unauthorized to work prior to obtaining Legal Permanent Resident status, we use the New Immigrant Survey to examine whether lacking legal status to work in the U.S. constrains employment outcomes of illegal immigrants. With the...
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Chinese immigrants in the US labor market: Effects of post-tiananmen immigration policy
Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline; Kerr, Emily - 2012
The Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 and ensuing government crackdown affected Chinese nationals not only at home but around the world. The U.S. government responded to the events in China by enacting multiple measures to protect Chinese nationals present in the U.S. It first suspended all...
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Immigration: The European experience
Dustmann, Christian; Frattini, Tommaso - 2011
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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Immigrant wage and employment assimilation: A comparison of methods
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hanel, Barbara; McVicar, Duncan - 2012
We compare alternative methods for estimating immigrant wage and employment assimilation using unique panel data over 2001-2009 for a large, nationally-representative sample of immigrants. Previous assimilation estimates have been mainly based on cross-sectional data and have therefore suffered...
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Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel
Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - 2001
There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. However, in some countries where labor markets...
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Glass ceilings or glass doors? Wage disparity within and between firms
Pendakur, Krishna; Woodcock, Simon - 2009
We investigate whether immigrant and minority workers' poor access to high-wage jobs - that is, glass ceilings - is attributable to poor access to jobs in high-wage firms, a phenomenon we call glass doors. Our analysis uses linked employer-employee data to measure mean- and quantile-wage...
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