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European labour immigrants to Norway for a period of up to eight years after entry. We find that the migrants were particularly … majority of the labour migrants directly affected by the downturn stayed in Norway and claimed unemployment insurance benefits. …
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assimilation, as measured by job occupation scores, marriage to a US native and take-up of US citizenship. We examine economic …
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's religious identity (affiliation). Religious groups are described as quasi-enclaves and immigrant churches as a subset of these …
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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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A possible unintended but damaging consequence of anti-immigrant rhetoric, and the policies it inspires, is that they may put high-skilled immigrants off more than low-skilled ones at times when countries and businesses intensify their competition for global talent. We investigate this argument...
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ethnic goods have vastly different effects on immigrant assimilation. We develop a simple theoretical model useful for … capturing the consequences of this struggle, illustrating it with examples of Central Asian assimilation into the Muscovite …
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Netherlands, which implies that all migrants are (self)-employed at the time of arrival. We find that many migrants leave the … the dynamics. Microsimulations of synthetic cohorts reveal that many migrants experience unemployment spells, but ten … only increase the unemployment among migrants but also departure from the country. Scenarios also indicate that an increase …
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how culture manifests itself in the migration process for three groups of actors: the migrants, those remaining in the … migration as an economic phenomenon; but what about them matters? Properly, we should be looking at the determinants of identity … and the determinants of culture (prices and incomes, broadly defined). But this is not what is done. Usually identity and …
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possible paths of adjustment from separation at entry, namely the transitions to assimilation, integration and marginalization …
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Using novel information from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1996-2011, we document that migrants with a …
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