by Immigrants' (SPVA) for the years 1991, 1994, 1998, 2002, we examined the impacts of social contacts and Dutch language … mastery of the Dutch language enhance immigrants'economic performances. The effects are much stronger for immigrants with low …Using longitudinal data on immigrants in the Netherlands fromthe survey 'Social Position and Use of Public Facilities …

language proficiency and labor market earnings of male and female immigrants to the United States. Design … missionary activity of both Protestants and Catholics on an immigrant’s English language proficiency using a linear probability … squares model. Among other relevant variables, the analysis controls for the colonial heritage of the immigrant’s country of …

2008 recession on the health of immigrant newborns in Italy. Health at birth (e.g., low birth weight) of immigrants … deteriorated more than health at birth of Italians. The negative effects on immigrants are not equally distributed across … level. Immigrants whose ethnicity is mainly employed in the sectors most affected during the recession, suffered the most …

allocated to an unfamiliar language environment. The differences are driven by growth rather than gestation and manifest in a 2 ….9 percentage point difference in low birth weight incidence. We find substantial dose-response relationships in terms of language … French-(Italian-) speaking destinations, but not vice versa. Contrasting the language match with co-ethnic networks, we find …

Τhe study examines whether adverse working conditions for immigrants in Greece bear an association with deteriorated …

We provide first evidence of the impact of over-education, among natives and immigrants, on firm-level productivity and … higher for natives than for immigrants. However, since the differential in productivity gains associated with over …-education between natives and immigrants outweighs the corresponding wage premium differential, we conclude - based on OLS and dynamic …

-generation immigrants living in the United States with their corresponding annual country of ancestry’s Gender Gap Index (GGI). Because all … these immigrants (with different cultural backgrounds) have grown up under the same laws, institutions, and economic …

economic conditions. By focusing on immigrants in the US, we can consider the influence of work norms in a person's home … more sensitive to economic downturns among immigrants from countries where people place less importance on work. We also …