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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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The increasing flows of immigrants in Europe over the last decade has generated a range of considerations in the policy agenda of many receiving countries. One of the main considerations for policy makers and public opinions alike is whether immigrants contribute their ”fair” share to their...
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We hypothesize that incomplete integration into the workplace and society implies that immigrants are less likely to be union members than natives. Incomplete integration makes the usual mechanism for overcoming the collective action problem less effective. Using data from the Socio-Economic...
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heterogeneous group in terms of their motives for migration and skills composition. In this paper, I disentangle immigrants into …, language proficiency, health status, years since migration, and cohort effects explain the employment gap between the refugees … employment gap between refugees, other migrants, and natives. Finally, this paper highlights the importance of the migration …
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Aspirations provide the underlying dynamics of the behavior of individuals whether they are realized or not. Knowledge about the characteristics and motives of those who aspire to leave the host country is key for both host and home countries to formulate appropriate and effective policies in...
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mitigate the need for initial self-selection in health and facilitate the migration experience abroad. …
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, circular and onward migration of the highly-skilled migrants around the world. After it describes the status quo in the … knowledge economy and the international race for talent, it presents the relevant theories and concepts of migration in the … social sciences and how these theories accommodate the phenomena of return, repeat and onward migration. A special section is …
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migration by bringing together the perspectives of the host and the home country. In this endeavor, it reviewed and evaluated … phenomena of return, circular and onward migration. It emphasized commonalities and compared differences in findings, while … heterogeneous people and cannot conform under one theory or empirical study. Their de facto migration comportment can be understood …
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In the face of recent refugee migration, early integration of asylum seekers into the labor market has been proposed as …
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the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in …
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