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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 … 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 …

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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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Labour force participation and employment of humanitarian migrants : evidence from the building a new life in Australia longitudinal data

Cheng, Zhiming; Wang, Ben Zhe; Taksa, Lucy - 2017

between human capital and labour market participation and employment status among recently arrived/approved humanitarian … migrants. It includes attention to the heterogeneity of labour force participation and employment status across genders and …

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Trade networks, heroin markets, and the labor market outcomes of Vietnam veterans

Lonsky, Jakub; Ruiz, Isabel; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - 2021

The role of ethnic immigrant networks in facilitating international trade is a well-established phenomenon in the literature. However, it is less clear whether this relationship extends to illegal trade and unauthorized immigrants. In this paper, we tackle this question by focusing on the case...

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Self-selection in physical and mental health among older intra-European migrants

Constant, Amelie; Milewski, Nadja - 2020

The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the host country, may suffer from serious cultural biases. Our study evades such biases by utilizing a destination-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to...

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Birth in hard times when you belong to minorities

Bertoli, Paola; Grembi, Veronica; Nguyen, The Linh Bao - 2020

Combining a unique dataset of birth records with municipal-level real estate information, we assess the impact of the 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...

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Gender, culture and STEM : counter-intuitive patterns in Arab society

Friedman-Sokuler, Naomi; Justman, Moshe - 2019

Arab society in Israel offers a counter-example, which calls into question the hypothesis that the male advantage in STEM decreases as gender equality in society increases. Analyzing administrative longitudinal data on students in Hebrew- and Arabic-language schools in Israel, all operating...

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The role of social identity and perceived discrimination in human capital formation : evidence from India

Gupta, Isha - 2022

This study examines the role of historically defined social identity in human capital development over time by focusing on a region from India where social identities are defined along the lines of castes and religious groups. It investigates the evolution of gaps across social groups in...

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Wage distributions in origin societies and occupational choices of immigrant generations in the US

Zhan, Crystal - 2020

This paper studies the occupational selection among generations of immigrants in the United States and links their choices to the occupational wage distribution in their country of origin. The empirical results suggest that individuals are more likely to take up an occupation in the US that was...

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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 … results shed light on the extent to which immigrants adjust to labour market imperfections and barriers to employment and … first study to systematically study the nexus between overeducation and self-employment in a comparative framework. Moreover …

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