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Immigration Policy, Assimilation of Immigrants and Natives' Sentiments Towards Immigrants : Evidence from 12 Oecd-Countries

Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Bauer, Thomas K.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2021

and the determinants of these sentiments is presented. Natives in countries that receive predominantly refugee migrants …. Natives in countries with mostly economic migrants are relatively more concerned about loosing jobs to immigrants. However …

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Ethnic Minorities in the European Union : An Overview

Kahanec, Martin - 2010

This paper sheds light on the labor market situation of ethnic minorities in the European Union. Facing a serious measurement challenge and lacking adequate data, we apply several measures of ethnicity and examine various data sources as well as secondary evidence. We find significant gaps...

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Immigration, Cultural Distance and Natives' Attitudes Towards Immigrants : Evidence from Swiss Voting Results

Brunner, Beatrice - 2014

We combine community-level outcomes of 27 votes about immigration issues in Switzerland with census data to estimate the effect of immigration on natives' attitudes towards immigration. We apply an instrumental variable approach to take potentially endogenous locational choices into account, and...

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Economic Preferences and Attitudes of the Unemployed : Are Natives and Second Generation Migrants Alike?

Constant, Amelie - 2010

natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between … the two groups mainly in terms of risk attitudes and positive reciprocity. Second generation migrants have a significantly … employment probability about two months after unemployment entry. We observe a significantly lower employment probability for …

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Ethnic Identity and Immigrants' Wages in Greece

Drydakis, Nick - 2011

This study investigates the impact of ethnic identity on Albanian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Georgian, and Russian wages in Greece. Treating ethnic identity as a composite of language, cultural habits, ethnic-self identification, societal interaction, and future citizenship plans, the estimations...

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Migration and Stratification

Jasso, Guillermina - 2011

Migration and stratification are increasingly intertwined. One day soon it will be impossible to understand one without the other. Both focus on life chances. Stratification is about differential life chances – who gets what and why – and migration is about improving life chances – getting...

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The Effect of Enclave Residence on the Labour Force Activities of Immigrants in Canada

Tu, Jiong - 2010

It has been well documented that immigrants' clustering of residence in large cities has been associated with the creation of a number of ethnic enclaves. The intensive exposure to own-ethnic population could affect immigrant labour market involvement positively or negatively. However, no extant...

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Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Integration

Constant, Amelie - 2009

This chapter deals with the economic and ethnic diversity caused by international labor migration, and their economic integration possibilities. It brings together three strands of literature dealing with the neoclassical economic assimilation, ethnic identities and attitudes towards immigrants...

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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 work more hours but are not given the opportunity),...

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Work and Money : Payoffs by Ethnic Identity and Gender

Constant, Amelie - 2009

Upon arrival in the host country, immigrants undergo a fundamental identity crisis. Their ethnic identity being questioned, they can be classified into four states - assimilation, integration, separation and marginalization. This is suggested by the ethnosizer, a newly established measure to...

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