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Moving up the social ladder? : wages of first- and second-generation immigrants from developing countries

Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022

As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working-age population in the developed world, their labour market integration constitutes a key factor for fostering economic development and social cohesion. Using a granular, matched...

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The effect of 9/11 on immigrants' ethnic identity and employment : evidence from Germany

Delaporte, Isaure - 2019

identity is expected to affect the economic outcomes of immigrants, little is known about the factors that in uence the … identity choice of the migrants and thus, their employment outcomes. This study investigates the effect of the 9/11 terrorist … attacks on the process of identity formation and the employment outcomes of Turkish immigrants in Germany. Using longitudinal …

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Ethnic identity and the employment outcomes of immigrants : evidence from France

Delaporte, Isaure - 2019

The objective of this paper is twofold: first, to determine the immigrants' ethnic identity, i.e. the degree of … ethnic identity on the immigrants' employment outcomes. Using rich survey data from France and relying on a polychoric … principal component analysis, this paper proposes two richer measures of ethnic identity than the ones used in the literature …

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Ethnicity differentials in academic achievements : the role of time investments

Ha Trong Nguyen; Connelly, Luke B.; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2020

Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying causes of their advantages are under-studied. We employ panel time-use diaries by two cohorts of children observed over a decade to present new evidence that children of Asian...

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Self-employment as a stepping stone to better labour market matching : a comparison between immigrants and natives

Ulceluse, Magdalena M. - 2018

The paper investigates whether self-employment represents a way to reduce overeducation and improve labour market matching, in a comparative analysis between immigrants and natives. Using the EU Labour Force Survey for the year 2012, and controlling for a list of demographic characteristics and...

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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence

Constant, Amelie - 2017

The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...

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Wage differences between immigrants and natives in Austria : the role of literacy skills

Christl, Michael; Köppl-Turyna, Monika; Gnan, Phillipp - 2017

This paper analyzes wage differences between natives and immigrants in Austria. First, we show that for both groups, literacy skills are an important determinant of the hourly wage. In the second step, we show that differences in proficiency with respect to literacy can explain more than three...

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Who goes on disability when times are tough? : the role of work norms among immigrants

Furtado, Delia; Papps, Kerry L.; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2020

We examine how work norms affect Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) take-up rates in response to worsening economic conditions. By focusing on immigrants in the US, we can consider the influence of work norms in a person's home country, which we argue are exogenous to labor market...

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The nativity wealth gap in Europe : a matching approach

Ferrari, Irene - 2019

This paper uses a matching method to provide an estimate of the nativity wealth gap among older households in Europe. This approach does not require imposing any functional form on wealth and avoids validity-out-of-the-support assumptions; furthermore, it allows not only the estimation of the...

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Updates on returns to education in India : analysis using PLFS 2018-19 data

Chen, Jie; Kanjilal-Bhaduri, Sanghamitra; Pastore, Francesco - 2022

In this paper, we report returns to education in India using unit level data from the nationwide Periodic Labour Force Survey for 2018-19. OLS estimates from the classical Mincerian equation are presented. Various econometric techniques (e.g., conventional IV and heteroskedasticity-based IV...

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