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The Effects of the 2008 Labour-Migration Reform in Sweden: An Analysis of Income
Irastorza, Nahikari; Emilsson, Henrik - 2020
In 2008, Sweden changed its labour-migration policy in order to facilitate more labour migration from countries outside … the EU. The unique design of the new law meant abandoning most state ambitions to shape labour migration. Under the new …. The effects of the policy change are substantial. Non-EU labour migration increased and its composition changed after the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012292034
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Identity and Labor Market Outcomes of Immigrants
Carillo, Maria Rosaria; Lombardo, Vincenzo; Venittelli, … - 2021
This paper explores the relationship between social identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants. Using survey data from Italy, we provide robust evidence that immigrants with stronger feelings of belonging to the societies of both the host and home country have higher employment rates,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390745
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Immigrants and Trade Union Membership: Does Integration into Society and Workplace Play a Moderating Role?
Bedaso, Fenet Jima; Jirjahn, Uwe; Goerke, Laszlo - 2022
We hypothesize that incomplete integration into the workplace and society implies that immigrants are less likely to be union members than natives. Incomplete integration makes the usual mechanism for overcoming the collective action problem less effective. Using data from the Socio-Economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013373818
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The Economic Impact of East-West Migration on the European Union
Kahanec, Martin; Pytliková, Mariola - 2017
This study contributes to the literature on destination-country consequences of international migration with … member states over the years 1995-2010. Using a rich international migration dataset and an empirical model accounting for … the endogeneity of migration flows we find positive and significant effects of post-enlargement migration flows from new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011628540
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Integration of humanitarian migrants into the host country labour market
Delaporte, Isaure; Piracha, Matloob - 2017
Australia, the study shows that pre-migration education, work experience, previous migration episodes, as well as English …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011667927
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The Immigrant-Native Wage Gap in Germany Revisited
Ingwersen, Kai; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2019
This study provides new evidence on the levels of economic integration experienced by foreigners and naturalised immigrants relative to native Germans from 1994 to 2015. We decompose the wage gap using the method for unconditional quantile regression models by employing a regression of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012006902
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Who is in favor of immigration
Epstein, Gil S.; Katav-Herz, Shirit - 2019
Population ageing affects most countries, especially developed ones. The elderly have increased in number as a result of increased longevity and a parallel decline in fertility. This phenomenon is placing an increasing burden on the young to finance intergenerational transfers to the old, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008410
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Are asylum seekers more likely to work with more inclusive labor market access regulations?
Slotwinski, Michaela; Stutzer, Alois; Uhlig, Roman - 2019
In the face of recent refugee migration, early integration of asylum seekers into the labor market has been proposed as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012062986
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Return, Circular, and Onward Migration Decisions in a Knowledge Society
Constant, Amelie F. - 2019
, circular and onward migration of the highly-skilled migrants around the world. After it describes the status quo in the … knowledge economy and the international race for talent, it presents the relevant theories and concepts of migration in the … social sciences and how these theories accommodate the phenomena of return, repeat and onward migration. A special section is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012106810
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Social Contacts, Dutch Language Proficiency and Immigrant Economic Performance in the Netherlands
Chiswick, Barry R.; Wang, Zhiling - 2019
between age at migration and a dichotomous variable for a non-Dutch-speaking origin is used as the identifying instrument. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012116000