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Across European Union (EU) labor markets, immigrant and native populations exhibit disparate labor market outcomes … with labor market hierarchies in terms of unemployment and employment quality gaps between immigrant and native populations …. Our findings imply that designing less restrictive policies may help mitigate immigrant-native labor market hierarchies by …
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Migration is often viewed as an investment decision. Temporary migrants can be expected to invest less in accumulating human capital specific to the host country. Instead, they work more hours in order to accumulate savings and invest in financial capital that can be transferred back to their...
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This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment in Germany. Our data include a large number of migration variables, allowing us to adapt a recently developed concept of ethnic identity: the ethnosizer. To shed further light...
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The role of institutions in immigrant integration remains underexplored in spite of its essential significance for … integration policies. This paper adopts the Varieties of Capitalism framework to study the institutional determinants of Immigrant …-Native gaps in host labor markets. Using the EU LFS we first measure immigrant-native gaps in labor force participation …
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some immigrant groups declined during the crisis years (those from Europe outside the EU or with eleven or more years since … provides new insights into the functioning of the European Single Market and the roles various immigrant groups play for its …
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Economic theory suggests that high-skilled immigration generally has positive effects on the receiving economy. International student mobility is an important channel through which high-skilled immigrants arrive. The purpose of this paper is to identify some of the key determinants of...
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The fall of labor's share of GDP in the United States and many other countries in recent decades is well documented but its causes remain uncertain. Existing empirical assessments of trends in labor's share typically have relied on industry or macro data, obscuring heterogeneity among firms. In...
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The recent fall of labor's share of GDP in numerous countries is well-documented, but its causes are poorly understood. We sketch a "superstar firm" model where industries are increasingly characterized by "winner take most" competition, leading a small number of highly profitable (and low labor...
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The labor market outcomes of ethnic minorities in advanced societies and their dependence on social relationships and membership in social networks are important empirical issues with significant policy consequences. We use detailed micro-data on multiple-origin ethnic minorities in England and...
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experts from organizations working on immigrant integration in the EU is analyzed using simple comparative statistical methods … less negatively, barriers to immigrant labor market inclusion identified include language and human capital gaps, a lack of …
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