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The impact of immigration on the well-being of natives

Akay, Alpaslan; Constant, Amelie; Giulietti, Corrado - 2012

This paper examines the effect of immigration directly on the overall utility of natives. To the best of our knowledge … robust, positive effect of immigration on natives' well-being. The presence of confounding local labour market … characteristics has a negligible impact on the estimates. Furthermore, we find substantial evidence that the effect of immigration on …

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Qualifications, discrimination, or assimilation? : an extended framework for analysing immigrant wage gaps

Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Rosholm, Michael; Smith, Nina; … - 2001

In this paper, we analyze immigrant wage gaps and propose an extension of the traditional wage decomposition technique, which is a synthesis from two strains of literature on ethnic/immigrant wage differences, namely the "assimilation literature" and the "discrimination literature". We estimate...

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Pitfalls of immigrant inclusion into the European welfare state

Kahanec, Martin; Kim, Anna Myunghee; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011

This paper's main purpose is to gauge immigrants' demand for social assistance and services and identify the key barriers to social and labor market inclusion of immigrants in the European Union. The data from an online primary survey of experts from organizations working on immigrant...

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Please call me John : name choice and the assimilation of immigrants in the United States, 1900-1930

Carneiro, Pedro; Lee, Sokbae; Reis, Hugo - 2016

The vast majority of immigrants to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century adopted first names that were common among natives. The rate of adoption of an American name increases with time in the US, although most immigrants adopt an American name within the first year of arrival....

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From immigrants to Americans: race and assimilation during the Great Migration

Fouka, Vasiliki; Mazumder, Shom; Tabellini, Marco - 2021

-migration with a version of the shift-share instrument, we find that immigrants living in areas that received more Black migrants …

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Employment and wage assimilation of male first generation immigrants in Denmark

Husted, Leif; Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Rosholm, Michael; … - 2000

Labour market assimilation of Danish first generation male immigrants is analysed based on two panel data sets covering the population of immigrants and 10% of the Danish population during 1984-1995. Wages and employment probabilities are estimated jointly in a random effects model which...

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Divorce among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S.

Houseworth, Christina A.; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2019

This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data are for males and females age 18 to 55, who married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community...

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Immigrant volunteering : a way out of labour market discrimination?

Baert, Stijn; Vujić, Sunčica - 2016

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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Does over-education raise productivity and wages equally? : the moderating role of workers' origin and immigrants' background

Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022

We provide first evidence of the impact of over-education, among natives and immigrants, on firm-level productivity and wages. We use Belgian linked panel data and rely on the methodology from Hellerstein et al. (1999) to estimate ORU (over-, required, and under-education) equations aggregated...

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Glass ceilings or glass doors? : wage disparity within and between firms

Pendakur, Krishna; Woodcock, Simon - 2009

disparity they face. -- Glass ceilings ; wage differentials ; immigration ; visible minorities ; quantile regression ; linked …

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