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Occupational attainment and earnings among immigrant groups : evidence from New Zealand
Maani, Sholeh A.; Dai, Mengyu; Inkson, Kerr - 2015
This paper concerns the prediction of career success among migrants. We focus specifically on the role of occupation as … Zealand data. New Zealand provides an interesting case, as a country where migrants from diverse ethnic groups comprise a …
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Do migrants lower workplace wages?
White, Michael; Bryson, Alex - 2017
and the percentage of migrants employed at a workplace. We find wages are lower in workplaces employing a higher … percentage of migrants, but only when those migrants are non-EEA migrants. However, the effects are no longer apparent when we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011612948
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Do migrants get good jobs in Australia? : the role of ethnic networks in job search
Mahuteau, Stéphane (contributor);  … - 2008
We study the role of ethnic networks in migrants' job search and the quality of jobs they find in the first years of … result of restrictions in welfare eligibility since 1997, we study whether this increases the probability that new migrants … view. However, accounting for their higher employability, new migrants seem to fare better up to a year and half after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716528
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Workplace, human capital and ethnic determinants of sickness absence in Sweden, 1993 -2001
Bengtsson, Tommy (contributor); Scott, Kirk (contributor) - 2008
This study charts the differences between the sickness absence of immigrants and Swedes during a period when a flourishing labour market in the beginning of the 1990s turned into a tense and problematic one. We consider not only human capital factors for various immigrant groups and natives, but...
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Ethnic networks and employment outcomes
Patacchini, Eleonora (contributor); Zenou, Yves (contributor) - 2008
We analyse the effect of strong and weak ties on the individual probability of finding a job. Using the dynamic model of Calvó-Armengol and Jackson (2004), two results are put forward: (i) the individual probability of finding a job is increasing in the number of strong and weak ties; (ii) the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652708
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Green cards and the location choices of immigrants in the United States, 1971 - 2000
Jaeger, David A. (contributor) - 2006
This paper documents where immigrants who enter the U.S. with different types of visas ("green cards") choose to live initially and what determines those location choices. Using population data on immigrants from the Immigration and Naturalization Service from 1971 to 2000, matched to data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003328061
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Cross-nativity marriages and human capital levels of children
Furtado, Delia (contributor) - 2009
A common perception about immigrant assimilation is that association with natives necessarily speeds the process by which immigrants become indistinguishable from natives. Using 2000 Census data, this paper casts doubt on this presumption by examining the effect of an immigrant's marriage to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794040
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Ethnicity and the immigration of highly skilled workers to the United States
Jasso, Guillermina (contributor) - 2009
This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic components of ethnicity -country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion - among persons admitted to legal permanent residence in the United States in 2003 in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003796343
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Work and money : payoffs by ethnic identity and gender
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
Upon arrival in the host country, immigrants undergo a fundamental identity crisis. Their ethnic identity being questioned, they can be classified into four states assimilation, integration, separation and marginalization. This is suggested by the ethnosizer, a newly established measure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872706
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Citizenship, co-ethnic populations and employment probabilities of immigrants in Sweden
Bevelander, Pieter; Pendakur, Ravi - 2009
Over the last decades, Sweden has liberalized its citizenship policy by reducing the required number of years of residency to five for foreign citizens and only two for Nordic citizens. Dual citizenship has been allowed since 2001. During the same period, immigration patterns by country of birth...
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