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The times they are a-changin' : organizational change and immigrant employment opportunities in Scandinavia
Rosholm, Michael; Scott, Kirk; Husted, Leif - 2001
of immigrants from Norway, Poland, Turkey, and Iran is brought forth. The comparative approach shows that immigrants in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391764
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Self‐employment amongst migrant groups in England and Wales : new evidence from Census microdata
Clark, Kenneth; Drinkwater, Stephen J.; Robinson, Catherine - 2015
Self‐employment constitutes a vital part of the economy since entrepreneurs can provide not only employment for themselves but also for others. The link between self‐employment and immigration is, however, complex since self‐employment can be viewed as both a haven from the paid labour...
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The job search and education investments of immigrant families
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Connolly, Marie D.; Worswick, … - 2001
This paper examines the post-migration investments in schooling and job search of immigrant families using new longitudinal data for Australia. Higher education levels at time of arrival are associated with a greater probability of enrolling in school after migration. In households where the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401233
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Speaking in numbers : the effect of reading performance on math performance among immigrants
Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2015
influence of reading performance on math performance, highlighting the importance of early language support for immigrants for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011375895
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The educational achievement of pupils with immigrant and native mothers : evidence from Taiwan
Lin, Eric S.; Lu, Yu-Lung - 2015
This paper takes advantage of the Taiwan Assessment of Student Achievement data set to empirically evaluate whether the test score differentials between pupils with immigrant and native mothers are substantial across subjects, grades and years. Our results show that there exist test score...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011375952
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Relative income and life satisfaction of Turkish immigrants : the impact of a collectivistic culture
Dumludag, Devrim; Gokdemir, Ozge; Vendrik, Maarten C. - 2015
Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands. For two sets of ethnic and life-domain reference groups, results are obtained that … immigrants. Perceived importance of income comparison with Dutch natives is positively correlated to life satisfaction … Turkish immigrants. Perceived importance of income comparison with relatives in the Netherlands is positively correlated to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309015
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Immigrant adjustment in Israel : literacy and fluency in Hebrew and earnings
Chiswick, Barry R.; Repetto, Gastón - 2000
earnings among adult male Jewish immigrants in Israel, using the 1972 Census of Israel. Among other findings, Hebrew speaking … earn 2 percent less than Hebrew speaking immigrants who speak neither of these languages. Comparisons are made to a study … of immigrants in the 1983 Census of Israel, and immigrants in other countries. Estimates of the rate of return to the …
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Social harmony at the boundaries of the welfare state : immigrants and social transfers
Epstein, Gil S.; Hillman, Arye L. - 2000
The social contract of the welfare state can be strained by the arrival of immigrants who receive welfare payments … financed by citizens' taxes. We show, however, that the presence of unemployed immigrants receiving welfare payments is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336874
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Parametric and semiparametric estimation in models with misclassified categorical dependent variables
Dustmann, Christian; Soest, Arthur van - 2000
immigrants in Germany. We find that a parametric model which explicitly allows for misclassification performs better than a …
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Sex, race, and job satisfaction among highly educated workers
Hersch, Joni; Xiao, Jean - 2015
There has been a considerable amount of work focusing on job satisfaction and sex, generally finding that women are more satisfied than men despite having objectively worse job conditions. But there is little evidence on whether job satisfaction differs by race or ethnicity. We use data from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346636