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Measuring labour differences between natives, non-natives, and natives with an ethnic-minority background
Drydakis, Nick - 2017
Through a field study we measure differences in employment outcomes between natives, non-natives, and natives with an ethnic-minority background. It is suggested that the joint effect of productivity uncertainties and distastes against ethnic-minority groups should be higher for non-natives than...
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Ethnic spatial dispersion and immigrant identity
Constant, Amelie; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2023
The role of ethnic clustering in ethnic identity formation has remained unexplored, mainly due to missing detailed data …s and 1970s we find that local co-ethnic concentration affects immigrants' ethnic identity. While residential ethnic … clustering strengthens immigrants' retention of an affiliation with their origin (minority identity), it weakens identification …
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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 …
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Ethnic identity and immigrants' labour market outcomes
Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Cheng, Zhiming; … - 2021
The objective of this paper is to analyse how immigrants' ethnic identity correlates with their labour market outcomes …. 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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A broken social elevator? : employment outcomes of first- and second-generation immigrants in Belgium
Piton, Céline; Rycx, François - 2020
This paper provides a comprehensive quantitative assessment of the employment performance of first- and second-generation immigrants in Belgium compared to that of natives. Using detailed quarterly data for the period 2008-2014, we find not only that first-generation immigrants face a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171461
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Integration of humanitarian migrants into the host country labour market
Delaporte, Isaure; Piracha, Matloob - 2017
The objective of this paper is to identify the factors that influence the labour market integration of new humanitarian migrants in the host country. A number of employment outcomes are examined including access to employment, access to stable employment, the wage/earnings level and the...
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The labor market integration of refugees and other migrants in Germany
Bedaso, Fenet Jima - 2021
Using the panel data from 1995 to 2019, this paper investigates the labor market integration of non-EU immigrants in Germany. The existing evidence shows that the economic outcomes of migrants are far behind natives. However, immigrants are a heterogeneous group in terms of their motives for...
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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 impact of immigration and integration policies on immigrant-native labor market hierarchies
Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin; Kureková, Lucia Mýtna - 2022
Across European Union (EU) labor markets, immigrant and native populations exhibit disparate labor market outcomes, signifying widespread labor market hierarchies. While significant resources have been invested in migration and integration policies, it remains unclear whether these contribute to...
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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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