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Longitudinal analysis of immigrant occupational mobility : a test of the immigrant assimilation hypothesis
Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
Using an immigrant assimilation framework, this paper develops a model of the occupational mobility of immigrants and tests the hypotheses using data on adult males from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia. The theoretical model generates hypotheses regarding a U-shaped pattern of...
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The role of firms and job mobility in the assimilation of immigrants : former Soviet Union Jews in Israel 1990-2019
Arellano-Bover, Jaime; San, Shmuel - 2023
We study how job mobility, firms, and firm-ladder climbing can shape immigrants' labor market success. Our context is the migration of former Soviet Union Jews to Israel during the 1990s. This setting presents unique institutional features - including the lack of barriers posed by migration...
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Job mobility as a new explanation for the immigrant-native wage gap : a longitudinal analysis for the German labor market
Brenzel, Hanna; Reichelt, Malte - 2015
Theoretisch lassen sich Lohnunterschiede zwischen Migranten und Einheimischen mithilfe der Humankapitaltheorie erklären … Berücksichtigung von Humankapital-Variablen meist ein unerklärter Lohnunterschied zwischen Migranten und Einheimischen. Wir benutzen … einen umfangreichen Längsschnittdatensatz (ALWA-ADIAB) und analysieren die Arbeitsplatzmobilität von Migranten und …
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Types of spatial mobility and the ethnic context of destination neighbourhoods in Estonia
Mägi, Kadi; Leetmaa, Kadri; Tammaru, Tiit; Ham, Maarten van - 2015
Most studies of the ethnic composition of destination neighbourhoods after residential moves do not take into account the types of moves people have made. However, from an individual perspective, different types of moves may result in neighbourhood environments that differ in terms of their...
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Can vocational education improve the wages of minorities and disadvantaged groups? : the case of Israel
Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - 2001
There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. However, in some countries where labor markets...
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Are immigrants more mobile than natives? : Evidence from Germany
Schündeln, Matthias (contributor) - 2007
Low rates of internal migration in many European countries contribute to the persistence of significant regional labor market differences. To further our understanding of the underlying reasons I study internal migration in Germany, using the Mikrozensus, a very large sample of households living...
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Complements or substitutes? : task specialization by gender and nativity in Spain
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Rica, Sara de la - 2009
Learning about the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives is a topic of major concern for immigrant-receiving countries. There exists an extensive literature evaluating the impact of immigration on the employment and wages of natives in the U.S. Yet, despite the...
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Immigrants' assimilation process in a segmented labor market
Alcobendas, Miguel Angel; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2009
While much of the literature on immigrants' assimilation has focused on countries with a large tradition of receiving immigrants and with flexible labor markets, very little is known on how immigrants adjust to other types of host economies. With its severe dual labor market, and an...
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The wage premium of foreign education : new evidence from Australia
Chan, Gavin; Heaton, Christopher; Tani, Massimiliano - 2012
We study whether Australian employers recognise immigrants' education acquired abroad, and if so how. Using data from the Longitudinal Surveys of Immigrants in Australia, we apply interval regression to model migrant hourly earnings. We find substantially higher returns from human capital...
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Eastern partnership migrants in Germany : outcomes, potentials and challenges
Biavaschi, Costanza; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013
Despite the ongoing dialogue on facilitating mobility between the European Union and the Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries, very little is known about the magnitude and characteristics of migration from these countries. We find that EaP migrants experience worse labor market outcomes than...
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