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Corporate hierarchies under employee representation
Belloc, Filippo; Burdín, Gabriel; Landini, Fabio - 2020
This paper analyzes whether workplace employee representation (ER) affects the design of firm hierarchies. We rationalize the role of ER within a knowledge-based model of hierarchies, where the firm's choice of hierarchical layers depends on the trade-off between communication and knowledge...
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How much language is enough? : some immigrant language lessons from Canada and Germany
DeVoretz, Don J.; Hinte, Holger; Werner, Christiane - 2002
Germany and Canada stand at polar ends of the scientific debate over language integration and ascension to citizenship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412723
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Immigrant volunteering : a way out of labour market discrimination?
Baert, Stijn; Vujić, Sunčica - 2016
integration. In the present study, we investigate whether this prosocial engagement lowers the hiring discrimination against them …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452746
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What is the value of foreign work experience? : analysing online CV data in Slovakia
Kureková, Lucia Mýtna; Žilinčíková, Zuzana - 2016
disadvantages with labour market integration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458966
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Improving the integration of refugees : an early evaluation of a Swedish reform
Joona, Pernilla Andersson; Lanninger, Alma W.; … - 2015
facilitating and speeding up the integration of refugees and their family into the labor market and the society. From December 1 …, 2010 the reform transferred the responsibility for the integration of newly-arrived refugees from the municipalities to the … was motived by concern over the low employment level and slow integration of refugees. Our approach is to compare the …
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The labor market effects of refugee waves : reconciling conflicting results
Clemens, Michael A.; Hunt, Jennifer - 2017
An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using exogenous refugee supply shocks as natural experiments. Several studies have reached conflicting conclusions about the effects of noted refugee waves such as the Mariel Boatlift in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664509
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Language and labor market success
Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2014
migrants, destination language skills display both a prerequisite for and outcome of successful integration. Investments into …
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Ethnic identity and work
Constant, Amelie - 2014
Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often...
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Number of siblings and educational choices of immigrant children : evidence from first- and second-generation immigrants
Meurs, Dominique; Puhani, Patrick A.; Haaren-Giebel, … - 2015
We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283172
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The tower of Babel in the classroom : immigrants and natives in Italian schools
Ballatore, Rosario Maria; Fort, Margherita; Ichino, Andrea - 2014
We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). We explain why this is a relevant policy parameter although it has been neglected so far. We show...
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