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Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009

the returns to self-employment among low-skilled immigrants. We compare annual earnings and earnings growth of immigrant … financially rewarding option for most low-skilled immigrants. An exception is immigrant men, who are found to have higher earnings … growth than immigrants in wage/salary employment and are predicted to reach earnings parity after approximately 10 years in …

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The Impact of Economic Integration on Employment - An Assessment in the Context of EU Enlargement

Fertig, Michael - 2003

This paper is motivated by the idea that the enlargement of the European Union is only one part of an overall process, known as economic integration, which characterizes the involvement of European economies into the global division of labor. Therefore, the paper aims at providing a quantitative...

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The Societal Integration of Immigrants in Germany

Fertig, Michael - 2004

This paper investigates whether and to what extent immigrants in Germany are integrated into German society by utilizing a variety of qualitative information and subjective data collected in the 1999 wave of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). To this end, leisure-time activities and...

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Labor Market Assimilation and the Self- Employment Decision of Immigrant Entrepreneurs

Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999

-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage/salary workers are estimated. To control for endogenous … the population and average earnings ratios are used as instruments to control for self-selection into self-employment and … consequently identify the inverse Mills correction term in the earnings models. Self-employed immigrants do substantially better in …

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Immigrant Assimilation and Welfare Participation: Do Immigrants Assimilate Into or Out-of Welfare

Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999

This paper analyzes differences in welfare utilization between immigrants and natives in Sweden using a large panel data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased in Sweden in the 1990?s. We find that immigrants use welfare to a greater extent...

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Self-Employment and Earnings among High-Skilled Immigrants in the United States

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2000

. Predicted earnings of self-employed immigrants are higher throughout most of their work life relative to wage/salary immigrants … predicted earnings across national origin group of self-employed immigrants. The low variation in predicted earnings across …

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Immigration Policy, Assimilation of Immigrants and Natives' Sentiments towards Immigrants: Evidence from 12 OECD-Countries

Bauer, Thomas K.; Lofstrom, Magnus; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2000

migration and contribute to a better economic performance of the respective countries. …

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Labor Market Conditions and Post-Reform Declines in Welfare Receipt Among Immigrants

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bean, Frank D. - 2001

Considerable research attention has been devoted to the question of whether and to what extent changes in welfare policy legislated in the 1990s might have deterred immigrant participation in welfare programs, although only post-1996 immigrants were explicitly targeted by most of the changes....

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Labour market outcomes of immigrants in Germany: the importance of heterogeneity and attrition bias

Fertig, Michael; Schurer, Stefanie - 2007

assimilation profiles for both annual earnings and unemployment probabilities. Robust assimilation profiles are found for two …

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