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labour market continues to raise concerns. Evidence across countries shows that migrants are more often over-educated than … natives. Over the last years, scholarship has intended to capture the effect of informal networks on migrants’ over …-occupation mismatch is well documented. This article has two objectives: it assesses the extent to which over-education affects migrants …
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proficiency on adult foreign-born men's earnings, employment and occupational status. On average, social contacts and a good …-skill-transferability than for immigrants with high-skill-transferability, are stronger for economic migrants than for non-economic migrants, and …-ethnic contact on employment status. To deal with the endogeneity between Dutch language ability and earnings, an interaction term …
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How do political preferences and voting behaviors respond to information coming from abroad? Focusing on the international migration network, I document that opinion changes at the origins spill over to 1st- and 2nd-generation immigrants abroad. Local diasporas, social media, and family ties to...
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. More precisely, we estimate the role of ethnic identity in employment, wages, under-employment (i.e., they would prefer to … that ethnic identity strongly is associated with employment and wages as well a number of job satisfaction measures. We …
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, we estimate the causal effects of a firm’s bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We … find a positive, yet heterogeneous, effect of trade on immigrant employment but no effect on immigrant wages. …
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s the main migrant receiving country
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refugees and other migrants and compare the employment probability gap between refugees, other migrants, and natives. I also … examine whether refugees have a lower employment outcome than other migrants and to what extent the level of education … employment gap between refugees, other migrants, and natives. Finally, this paper highlights the importance of the migration …
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A double disadvantage occurs when the interaction of two disadvantages generates an additional disadvantage. We show that second-generation immigrant children in the Italian primary school experience a double disadvantage that, relative to the average native, reduces scores in Italian by 17% and...
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We apply difference-in-differences regressions to study the impact of the 2015 refugee crisis in Germany on the culturally closer diaspora of existing immigrants originating from Turkey and Middle- Eastern and North-African countries (TMENA). Our identification allows us to emphasize the role of...
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We study the role of immigrant children's ethnic identity in their educational performance and preferences/aspirations in Italy. We find that students with a weak sense of Italian belonging show a low performance in reading and mathematics and higher probability of grade retention. Moreover,...
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