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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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Migrant entrepreneurs and credit constraints under labour market discrimination

Frijters, Paul; Kong, Tao; Meng, Xin - 2011

level of credit constraints may be worth 2% of GDP per year direct earnings increases. …

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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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Economic choices and status: Measuring preferences for income rank

Mujcic, Redzo; Frijters, Paul - 2010

In this paper we report on the trade-offs that 1,068 Australian university students make between absolute income and the rank of that income in hypothetical income distributions. We find that income rank matters independently of absolute income, with greater weight given to rank by males,...

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Immigrant Job Search in the UK: Evidence from Panel Data

Frijters, Paul; Shields, Michael A.; Price, Stephen Wheatley - 2003

Most immigrant groups experience higher rates of unemployment than the host countries native population, but it is as yet unclear whether differences in job search behaviour, or its success, can help explain this gap. In this paper, we investigate how the job search methods of unemployed...

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