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the entry into the labour market, but it has a much smaller impact on the duration of the first employment spell and on …
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Despite having one of the most celebrated labor market integration policies, the native-immigrant employment gap in … the employment gap between male immigrants and natives. The results show that the traditional human capital theory only …, large unexplained employment gaps still persists between immigrants and natives and between migrant categories. Our analysis …
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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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in English and labour market outcomes among humanitarian migrants. Having better general or speaking skills in English is … speaking skills has been the least improved domain for humanitarian migrants' who have participated in an English training …
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This paper provides a comprehensive quantitative assessment of the employment performance of first- and second … first-generation immigrants face a substantial employment penalty (up to -36% points) vis-à-vis their native counterparts …. Among the key drivers of access to employment, we find: i) education for the descendants of non-EU-born immigrants, and ii …
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-national networks on formal labor market access of asylum seekers. While the individual employment probability is not linked to network …
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. More precisely, we estimate the role of ethnic identity in employment, wages, under-employment (i.e., they would prefer to … that ethnic identity is strongly associated with employment and wages as well a number of job satisfaction measures. We …
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We analyse the effect of active labour-market programmes on the hazard rate into regular employment for newly arrived … destination country language skills. We use rich administrative data from Denmark. We find substantial lock-in effects of … participation in active labour-market programmes. Post programme effects on the hazard rate to regular employment are significantly …
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We perform a comprehensive analysis of the stepping-stone effect of temporary agency employment on unemployed workers …. Using the timing-of-events approach, we not only investigate whether agency employment is a bridge into regular employment … intensity increases the likelihood of leaving unemployment for regular jobs. Our results show that agency employment is even …
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We estimate the effect of active labour market programmes on the exit rate to regular employment for non …-western immigrants in Denmark who receive social assistance. We use the timing-of-events duration model and rich administrative data. We … largest for subsidized employment programmes, but effects are also large and significant for direct employment programmes and …
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