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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 migration and skills composition. In this paper, I disentangle immigrants into …
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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, while those who exclusively identify with the host country culture do …
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, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We …We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate … immigrants from that country. By hiring immigrants, a firm may access foreign knowledge and networks needed to overcome …
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to formulate appropriate and effective policies in order to keep their valued immigrants or citizens and foster their (re … aspirations or stated preferences of immigrants across 138 countries worldwide. Our analysis reveals selection in characteristics …
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As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working ….5% for first- and second-generation immigrants, respectively. However, controlling for a wide range of observables (e.g. age … first-generation immigrants born in developing countries still experience a sizeable adjusted wage gap (2.7%), there is no …
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A large body of literature shows that first-generation immigrants born in developing countries experience a higher … comes to the overeducation of second-generation immigrants. Using a matched employer-employee database for Belgium over the … immigrants. …
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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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first-generation immigrants face a substantial employment penalty (up to -36% points) vis-à-vis their native counterparts …. Among the key drivers of access to employment, we find: i) education for the descendants of non-EU-born immigrants, and ii …-generation immigrants. Finally, estimates suggest that around a decade is needed for the employment gap between refugees and other foreign …
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This study estimates the labor market effects of a work-first policy that aimed at speeding up the labor market integration of refugees. The policy added new requirements for refugees to actively search for jobs and to participate in on-the-job training immediately upon arrival in the host...
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school graduates accumulated 2.8 quarters more private employment. However, because they substitute private for public and … self-employment, overall employment does not increase but is still better paid. For high school dropouts, no persistent …
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