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Ethnic concentration and human capital formation
Graaff, Thomas de; Groot, Henri L. F. de - 2004
Concentration of immigrants and its associated externalities have become an important topic in contemporary international migration research, both from a methodological as well as an empirical perspective. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it aims to provide an overview of that part...
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Social networks and labor market inequality between ethnicities and races
Toomet, Ott; Leij, Marco van der; Rolfe, Meredith - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009724344
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The wage penalty of dialect-speaking
Ours, Jan C. van; Yao, Yuxin - 2016
Our paper studies the effects of dialect-speaking on job characteristics of Dutch workers, in particular on their hourly wages. The unconditional difference in median hourly wages between standard Dutch speakers and dialect speakers is about 10.6% for males and 6.7% for females. If we take into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011556227
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Language proficiency of migrants : the relation with job satisfaction and skill matching
Bloemen, Hans G. - 2014 - This version November 2014
We empirically analyze the language proficiency of migrants in the Netherlands. Traditionally, the emphasis in studying … language proficiency and economic outcomes has been on the relation between earnings and indicators for language proficiency …, motivated by the human capital theory. Here we analyze whether there is a relation between proficiency of the destination …
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Car ownership and the labor market of ethnic minorities
Gautier, Pieter; Zenou, Yves - 2008
We show how small initial wealth differences between low skilled black and white workers can generate large differences in their labor-market outcomes. This even occurs in the absence of a taste for discrimination against blacks or exogenous differences in the distance to jobs. Because of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011377265
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Ethnic entrepreneurship and migration : a survey from developing countries
Doen, Marthen L. n; Gorter, Cees; Nijkamp, Peter; … - 1998
This paper explores the phenomenon of ethnic entrepreneurship and migration in developing countries. Our focus is on the decision of migrants to choose a particular site for conducting entrepreneurial activities. A survey of literature is presented in the opening section, in which two...
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In search of ethnic entrepreneurship opportunities in the city : a comparative policy study
Delft, Hadewijch van; Gorter, Cees; Nijkamp, Peter - 1999
The rapidly rising inflow of foreign migrants confronts policy-makers with many socio-economic problems. The negative externalities of uncontrolled immigration are well known and often hard to cope with. In recent years we have seen many policy initiatives based on self-reliance principles for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011302145
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Motivations and performance conditions for ethnic entrepreneurship
Masurel, Enno; Nijkamp, Peter; Tastan, Murat; Vindigni, … - 2001
Ethnic entrepreneurship has become a popular concept in a modernmulti-cultural society. This paper seeks to offer an overview of thepotential of ethnic entrepreneurship for solving inter alia thestructural unemployment problems of ethnic groups in cities. Thepresent paper addresses in particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011316867
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Effects of ethnic geographical clustering on educational attainment in the Netherlands
Graaff, Thomas de; Gorter, Cees; Nijkamp, Peter - 2001
Contemporary migration studies witness an increasing interest in the socio-economicrole of networks of migrants. Such networks are sometimes even regarded as the mostimportant attraction and location factors for migration, and may even exceed purelyeconomic factors like unemployment and wage...
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Immigration and innovation in European regions
Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009720768