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The impact of immigration on the employment of natives in regional labour markets : a meta-analysis
Longhi, Simonetta (contributor); Nijkamp, Peter (contributor) - 2006
Immigration is a phenomenon of growing significance in many countries. Increasing social tensions are leading to political pressure to limit a further influx of foreign-born persons on the grounds that the absorption capacity of host countries has been exceeded and social cohesion threatened....
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Wage gaps between native and migrant graduates of higher education institutions in the Netherlands
Gheasi, Masood; Nijkamp, Peter; Rietveld, Piet - 2015
present paper takes a look at wage differences between natives and migrants who are equally educated. This reduces potential … skills biases in our analysis. We apply a Mincer equation in estimating the wage differences between natives and migrants. In … Dutch labor market, especially for migrants with parents from non-OECD countries. …
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Immigrants' "ability" and welfare as a function of cultural diversity : effect of cultural capital at individual and local level
Tubadji, Annie; Gheasi, Masood; Nijkamp, Peter - 2014
This paper presents an operationalization of a mixed Bourdieu–Mincer-type model that seeks to find evidence for individual and local cultural capital effects on human capital 'ability'. We aim to compare these effects for native workers and immigrants (as well as between immigrants themselves)...
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Measuring cultural diversity and its impact on innovation : longitudinal evidence from Dutch firms
Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2013
To investigate econometrically whether cultural diversity of a firm's employees boosts innovation, we create a unique linked employer-employee dataset that combines data from two innovation surveys in The Netherlands with administrative and tax data. We calculate three distinct measures of...
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The impact of cultural diversity on innovation : evidence from Dutch firm-level data
Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2011
employ low-skilled migrants, we use the local number of restaurants with foreign cuisines and the historical presence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009422454