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Does Employment Protection Help Immigrants? Evidence from European Labor Markets
Sá, Filipa - 2010
High levels of employment protection reduce hiring and firing and have a theoretically ambiguous effect on the employment level. Immigrants, being new to the labor market, may be less aware of employment protection regulations and less likely to claim their rights, which may create a gap between...
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Examining the Relationships between Labour Market Mismatches, Earnings and Job Satisfaction Among Immigrant Graduates in Europe
McGuinness, Seamus - 2014
This paper uses graduate survey data and econometric methods to estimate the incidence and wage/job satisfaction effects of over-education and overskilling among immigrants graduating from EU 15 based universities in 2005. Female immigrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046669
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Substitution between Individual and Cultural Capital : Pre-Migration Labor Supply, Culture and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Woman
Blau, Francine D. - 2011
In this paper we use New Immigrant Survey data to investigate the impact of immigrant women's own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country to provide evidence on the role of human capital and culture in affecting their labor supply and wages in the United...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121740
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Migration as an Adjustment Mechanism in the Crisis? A Comparison of Europe and the United States 2006–2016
Jauer, Julia - 2018
-crisis migration movements at the regional level in both Europe and the United States, and their association with asymmetric labour … market shocks. Based on fixed-effects regressions using regional panel data, we find that Europe's migratory response to … measured population changes in Europe were due to migration for employment purposes – i.e. an upper-bound estimate – up to …
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Migration as an Adjustment Mechanism in the Crisis? A Comparison of Europe and the United States
Jauer, Julia - 2014
new light on this question by comparing pre- and post-crisis migration movements at the regional level in both Europe and … in Europe.Indeed, in contrast to the pre-crisis situation and the findings of previous empirical studies, there is … tentative evidence that the migration response to the crisis has been considerable in Europe, in contrast to the United States …
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Low-Skilled Immigrants and the U.S. Labor Market
Duncan, Brian - 2011
Over the last several decades, two of the most significant developments in the U.S. labor market have been: (1) rising inequality, and (2) growth in both the size and the diversity of immigration flows. Because a large share of new immigrants arrive with very low levels of schooling, English...
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Persistent Occupational Hierarchies Among Immigrant Worker Groups in the United States Labor Market
Postepska, Agnieszka - 2017
This paper examines the phenomenon of occupational hierarchies among immigrant labor groups in the United States. Using census data for 1940-2011 we document the persistent ranking of immigrant labor groups in major metropolitan areas reflected by their position in the empirical distribution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963857
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A Comparative Analysis of the Labour Market Performance of University‐Educated Immigrants in Australia, Canada, and the United States : Does Policy Matter?
Clarke, Andrew James - 2018
We examine data from Australia, Canada, and the U.S. to inform the potential for immigrant screening policies to influence the labour market performance of skilled immigrants. Our estimates point to improvements in employment rates and weekly earnings of male university‐educated immigrants in...
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First and Second Generation Immigrant Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes : A Comparison of the United States and Canada
Aydemir, Abdurrahman - 2006
The educational and labor market outcomes of the first, first-and-a-half, second and third generations of immigrants to the United States and Canada are compared. These countries' immigration flows have large differences in source countries, scale and timing, and Canada has a much larger policy...
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Declining Migration within the US : The Role of the Labor Market
Molloy, Raven - 2014
Interstate migration has decreased steadily since the 1980s. We show that this trend is not primarily related to demographic and socioeconomic factors, but instead appears to be connected to a concurrent secular decline in labor market transitions. We explore a number of reasons for the declines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054583