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EU enlargement and (temporary) migration : effects on labour market outcomes in Germany

Hammer, Luisa; Hertweck, Matthias S. - 2022

EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May 2011. Taking into account that not all immigrantsstay permanently and that outmigration flows are selective, this paper classifies recent EUimmigrants into “new arrivals” and...

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Trainspotting: "good jobs", training and skilled immigration

Mountford, Andrew; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2019

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The Assimilation of Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Markets

LaLonde, Robert John; Topel, Robert H. - 2022

This paper reassesses the evidence on the assimilation and the changing labor market skills of immigrants to the United States. We find strong evidence of labor market assimilation for most immigrant groups. For Asian and Mexican immigrants the first ten years experience in the united States...

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Working Their Way Up? Us Immigrants' Changing Labor Market Assimilation in the Age of Mass Migration

Collins, William J. - 2019

Whether immigrants advance in labor markets relative to natives is a fundamental question in immigration economics. It is difficult to answer this question for the Age of Mass Migration, when US immigration was at its peak. New datasets of linked census records show that immigrants experienced...

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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, we study their labor market integration over the last 50 years, and document key differences to the US case. While the employment gaps between immigrant and native men decline...

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The Entry into the U.S. Labor Market of Antebellum European Immigrants, 1840-60

Ferrie, Joseph P. - 2021

This study examines the occupational mobility of antebellum immigrants as they entered the U.S. White collar, skilled, and semi-skilled immigrants left unskilled jobs more rapidly after arrival than farmers and unskilled workers. British and German immigrants fared better than the Irish;...

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The Economic Assimilation of Irish Famine Migrants to the United States

Collins, William J. - 2018

The repeated failure of Ireland's potato crop in the late 1840s led to a major famine and a surge in migration to the US. We build a dataset of Irish immigrants and their sons by linking males from 1850 to 1880 US census records. For comparison, we also link German and British immigrants, their...

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The Impact of Assimilation on the Earnings of Immigrants : a Reexamination of the Evidence

Borjas, George J. - 2021

This paper reexamines the empirical basisfor two "facts" which seem to be found in most cross-section studies of immigrant earnings: (1) the earnings of immigrants grow rapidly as they assimilate into the U.S.; and (2) this rapid growth leads to many immigrants overtaking the earnings of the...

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Language integration of labour migrants in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden from a historical perspective

Höhne, Jutta - 2013

Das vorliegende Paper untersucht die sprachliche Integration von Arbeitsmigranten in sechs westeuropäischen … Migranten bis in die frühen oder sogar späten 1980er Jahre hinein. Gemessen an den heutigen intensiven und didaktisch … Österreich), sich auch jetzt nur vergleichsweise wenig engagieren, wenn es darum geht, Sprachunterricht für Migranten zu …

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Culture and Gender Allocation of Tasks : Source Country Characteristics and the Division of Non-Market Work Among Us Immigrants

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Comey, Matthew; … - 2022

There is a well-known gender difference in time allocation within the household, which has important implications for gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender difference in time allocation is to culture. In particular, we ask if US immigrants allocate tasks...

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