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Immigration, social networks, and occupational mismatch
Alaverdyan, Sevak; Zaharieva, Anna - 2019
develop a theoretical search and matching model with two ethnic groups of workers (natives and immigrants), two search …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012007171
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Immigrant over- and under-education : the role of home country labour market experience
Matloob, Piracha; Tani, Massimiliano; Vadean, Florin - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-21
work experience, particularly that of education-occupation mismatch prior to migration.We show that type of work experience …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683325
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The situation of female immigrants on the German labour market : a multi-perspective approach
Salikutluk, Zerrin; Giesecke, Johannes; Kroh, Martin - 2020
While general ethnic disadvantages are well documented, much less is known about coinciding disadvantages of ethnic origin and gender. Based on theoretical arguments of human capital theory, sociocultural approaches, labour market segmentation theory, and discrimination mechanisms, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012170763
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Naturalization and labor market performance of immigrants in Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Saif, Salwan - 2018
Naturalization may be a relevant policy instrument affecting immigrant integration in host-country labor markets. We study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and exploit a reform of naturalization rules in an instrumental...
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Russian migrants to Russia : assimilation and local labor market effects
Lazareva, Olga - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-25
after about ten years after the peak of migration wave. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404246
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The performance of immigrants in the German labor market
Beyer, Robert - 2017
This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011598931
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Does intermarriage change migrants’ preferences for the home country?
Weber, Rosa - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-21
Motivations for migrants to return clearly change with integration, but the time-changing aspect of return migration … intermarriage and three outcomes related to migrants' home country preference - intentions to return, remittances sent and actual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010526548
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Migration and culture
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2010
Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding … how culture manifests itself in the migration process for three groups of actors: the migrants, those remaining in the … migration as an economic phenomenon; but what about them matters? Properly, we should be looking at the determinants of identity …
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Intertemporal remittance behaviour by immigrants in Germany
Bettin, Giulia; Lucchetti, Riccardo - 2012
for theoretical models which predict different remittance time paths between return and permanent migrants. -- Migration … ; Remittances ; German Socio Economic Panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009681470
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Differences in the labor market entry of second-generation immigrants and ethnic Danes
Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Kromann, Lene - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-22
search models by matching second-generation immigrants to their ethnic Danish twins according to parental characteristics and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472887