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Social determinants of labor market status of ethnic minorities in Britain

Kahanec, Martin (contributor); Mendola, Mariapia (contributor) - 2007

the core family structure and contacts with parents and children away (in Britain) increases the probability of self-employment … employment. Finally, disaggregating different types of social networks along their compositional characteristics, we find that …-ethnic social networks facilitates paid employment among minority individuals. These findings hint at a positive role of social …

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Ethnicity, job search and labor market reintegration of the unemployed

Constant, Amelie; Kahanec, Martin; Rinne, Ulf; … - 2009

This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment … moderate, yet still above the level which would imply similar employment probabilities as other groups of migrants …. -- Migration ; ethnicity ; ethnic identity ; ethnosizer ; unemployment ; job search ; reservation wages …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003931980

Lessons from migration after EU enlargement

Kahanec, Martin; Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

The Eastern enlargement of the EU was an institutional impetus to the migration potential in Europe. While the overall numbers of migrants from the new member states in the EU15 increased between 2003 and 2007, this increase was distributed unevenly among countries. The proportion of these...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003863171

Labor market outcomes of immigrants and non-citizens in the EU : an East-West comparison

Kahanec, Martin (contributor); Zaiceva, Anzelika (contributor) - 2008

. -- Immigrant ; citizenship ; earnings ; employment ; labor market ; Eastern Europe …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003684464

An expert stakeholder's view on European integration challenges

Constant, Amelie; Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010

that ethnic minorities do want to change their situation, especially in terms of employment, education, housing and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009314271

Did post-enlargement labor mobility help the EU to adjust during the Great Recession? : the case of Slovakia

Kahanec, Martin; Kureková, Lucia Mýtna - 2014

This paper evaluates the mobility patterns of Slovaks into the rest of the European Union (EU) following Slovakia's EU accession in 2004 and through the Great Recession. Combining information from various data sources including the Slovak Labor Force Survey and conducting our own statistical...

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The free movement of workers in an enlarged European Union : institutional underpinnings of economic adjustment

Kahanec, Martin; Pytlikova, Mariola; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2014

The eastern enlargements of the European Union (EU) and the extension of the free movement of workers to the new member states' citizens unleashed significant east-west migration flows in a labor market with more than half a billion people. Although many old member states applied transitional...

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What explains immigrant-native gaps in European labor markets : the role of institutions

Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin; Kureková, Lucia Mýtna - 2015

, unemployment, low-skilled employment and temporary employment. We distinguish the gaps that can be explained by immigrant …

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The substitutability of labor of selected ethnic groups in the US labor market

Kahanec, Martin (contributor) - 2006

This paper investigates the substitutability of labor of selected ethnic groups in the US labor market. In the generalized Leontief framework, the analysis of US census-based data reveals that labor of non-White ethnic groups is complementary to that of White ethnic group. This finding supports...

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Labor mobility in an enlarged European Union

Kahanec, Martin - 2012

The 2004 and 2007 enlargements of the EU extended the freedom of movement to workers from the twelve new member states mainly from Central Eastern Europe. This study summarizes and comparatively evaluates what we know about mobility in an enlarged Europe to date. The pre-enlargement fears of...

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