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-2018. We measure convergence of labor market outcomes for male and female migrants to similar natives before and after the … Great Recession and across countries of destination. Our results show that in most countries female migrants start with a … larger employment gap but converge more rapidly than male migrants do. We also provide a broad overview of the role of …
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We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We compare their wage assimilation to that of ethnic German immigrants from Eastern Bloc countries and international immigrants to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The...
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Canada). However, since wages in Quebec are lower than elsewhere, immigrants in Quebec earn less in absolute terms than those …
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We estimate the impact of the income earned in the host country on return migration of labor migrants from developing … to the Netherlands. The empirical results show that intensities of return migration are U-shaped with respect to migrants …
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Using newly digitized Canada-Vermont border crossing records from the early twentieth century, this paper identifies … key factors that may explain differences in how female and male migrants sort by human capital across destinations … sorting of female migrants. Everything else equal, destinations with institutional and social environments that limited the …
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This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...
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The paper compares the pattern of wage assimilation of foreigners with both native immigrants and local natives in Italy, a country with large internal and international migration. This comparison, not yet exploited, yields understanding of the role played by language and knowledge of social...
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previous literature. We distinguish between two types of migrants: labor and family migrants given their different labor market …. Controlling for the selective out-migration and endogeneity of labor supply, we find that labor out-migrants are positively … selected but family out-migrants are negatively selected. Furthermore, the findings underscore the importance of taking into …
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Previous studies show that immigrants married to natives earn higher wages than immigrants married to other immigrants. Using data from the 1980-2000 U.S. censuses and the 2005- 2010 American Community Surveys, we show that these wage premiums have increased over time. Our evidence suggests that...
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Many governments encourage migrants to participate in volunteer activities as a stepping stone to labour market …-volunteering native candidates receive more than twice as many job interview invitations as non‐volunteering migrants, no unequal … treatment is found between natives and migrants when they reveal volunteer activities. …
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