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Employment effects of language training for unemployed immigrants

Lang, Julia - In: Journal of Population Economics 35 (2021) 2, pp. 719-754

Proficiency in the host country’s language is an important factor for the successful labor market integration of immigrants. In this study, I analyze the effects of a language training program for professional purposes on the employment opportunities of participants in Germany. I apply an...

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Social networks and (political) assimilationin the age of mass migration

Biavaschi, Costanza; Giulietti, Corrado; Zenou, Yves - 2022

This paper investigates the causal pathways through which ethnic social networks influence individual naturalization. Using the complete-count Census of 1930, we digitize information on the exact residence of newly arrived immigrants in New York City. This allows us to define networks with a...

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Climate shocks, migration, and labor markets : a gender analysis from West Africa

El-Mallakh, Nelly; Wodon, Quentin - 2021

African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU). We focus on migration ows within the WAEMU countries to disentangle the … show that migration in the WAEMU is associated with a decline in female labor participation, as it is primarily motivated … robust to accounting for the double selection into shocks and migration using a Propensity Score Matching technique that …

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Identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants

Carillo, Maria R.; Lombardo, Vincenzo; Venittelli, Tiziana - 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,...

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Social barriers to female migration : theory and evidence from Bangladesh

Amirapu, Amrit; Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2020

Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, thus preventing them from taking advantage of … using marriage to engage in long-distance migration - if they are able to match with migrating grooms. Guided by a … theoretical model in which women make marriage and migration decisions jointly, we hypothesize that marriage and labour markets …

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A strictly economic explanation of gender roles : the lasting legacy of the plough.

Cigno, Alessandro - 2020

We show that the descendants of ancient farmers may have an interest in marrying among themselves, and thus maintaining the gendered division of labour, originally justiÖed on comparativeadvantage grounds by the advent of the plough, even after they emigrate to a modern industrial economy where...

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"A global city in a global pandemic : assessing the ongoing impact of COVID induced trends on London's economic sectors"

Anderson, Dylan; Hesketh, Rachel; Kleinman, Mark; … - 2020

Over the last 50 years, London has successfully adapted to technological change and globalization, making it the major driver of the UK economy. But its strengths have also made the city particularly vulnerable to the health impacts of COVID-19, and potentially also to wider negative economic...

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Should I stay or should I go? : migration and job-skills mismatch among Italian doctoral recipients

Alfano, Vincenzo; D'Uva, Marcella; De Simone, Elina; … - 2019

' selfselection into non-academic employment as well as the endogeneity of the migration choice. Results demonstrate that migration … seems to facilitate the possibility of finding better job opportunities. More specifically, only migration within the …

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The world at the crossroad : demographic polarization and mass migration : global threat or global opportunity

Bruni, Michele - 2019

form of well planned and organized migration flows that, while responding to the quantitative and qualitative needs of …

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The belt and road initiative : demographic trends, labour markets and welfare systems of member countries

Bruni, Michele - 2019

migration flows in the amount and with the educational stricture coherent with their needs. However, such a process is extremely …

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