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Much has been written about the labour market outcomes for immigrants in their host countries, particularly with regard … whether immigrants are as likely to receive employer-provided training relative to comparable natives. As such training should … be crucial in determining the labour market success of immigrants in the long run it is a critically important question …
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The purpose of this paper is two-fold. We firstly produce a labour market profile of non-Irish immigrants who arrived … immigration (non-Irish) on the Irish labour market. Immigrants are shown to be a highly educated group. However, they are not all … immigrants (a) if they were employed at a level fitting their education and (b) if they were employed in occupations below their …
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The purpose of this paper is two-fold. We firstly produce a labour market profile of non-Irish immigrants who arrived … immigration (non-Irish) on the Irish labour market. Immigrants are shown to be a highly educated group. However, they are not all … immigrants (a) if they were employed at a level fitting their education and (b) if they were employed in occupations below their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762219
The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997-2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of lowskill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labor market outcomes. This is done...
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find lower rates of welfare receipt among immigrants. While the numbers of immigrants claiming unemployment … to which immigrants can receive welfare payments. In this paper, we compare the rates of receipt of welfare for … immigrants and natives to see if the outcome is consistent with the operation of this policy. Using data from 2008, we generally …
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The issue of welfare receipt by immigrants is highly controversial across Europe. In this paper, we assess whether … immigrants are more likely to receive welfare payments relative to natives across a range of European countries. Using the … European Union Survey on Income and Living Conditions for 2007, we find very little evidence that immigrants are indeed more …
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assess whether the average wages of natives across skill cells is affected by the share of immigrants across cells. When the …
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destinations. In this paper, we analyse the earnings of immigrants in Ireland from the NMS using a new large-scale dataset on …. We find that the average earnings difference between immigrants from the NMS and natives is between 10 percent and 18 … determinant of the immigrant-native earnings gap for NMS immigrants in Ireland. …
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immigrants. However, much less attention has been paid to the re-adjustment challenges migrants face on their return. In this …
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immigrants. However, much less attention has been paid to the re-adjustment challenges migrants face on their return. In this …
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