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Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examined the impact of social contacts on immigrant occupational status and income. In addition to general social contacts, we also analyzed the effects of bonding (i.e., co-ethnic) and bridging (i.e., interethnic) ties on economic outcomes....
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stress, income and hours worked. However, despite these large effects on job attributes, we find that promotions have … deterioration two years after receiving a promotion. Thus, it seems the additional stress involved with promotions eventually …
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We empirically analyze the language proficiency of migrants in the Netherlands. Traditionally, the emphasis in studying …
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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...
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Using data from the United States spanning the period between 1970 and 2017, we analyze the economic assimilation of subsequent arrival cohorts of Mexican and Central American immigrants, the more economically disadvantaged group of immigrants. We compare their wage and employment probability to...
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result in highly restrictive immigration policies. Promoting integration of migrants into the host country would go a long … migrants' integration, namely the process of social assimilation. The aim of this paper is to take a close look at migrants … module to the role and relevance of social relations for both migrants and natives. An innovative feature of this analysis is …
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This paper contributes to the analysis of the integration of immigrants in the Canadian labour market by focusing in two relatively new dimensions. We combine the large samples of the restricted version of the Canadian Census (1991-2006) with both a new measure of linguistic proximity of the...
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immigrants who intramarry other immigrants in Sweden. We conduct the same analyses on three subsamples: labour migrants, refugees … and family migrants. We find that intermarried immigrants outperformed intramarried ones in employment rates and salaries … that time period, but this difference is only significant for the subsample of family migrants. Finally, the upward …
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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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Australia, Canada and New Zealand, or do not attract large volumes of undocumented immigrants. We interpret these results as …
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