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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779354
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The Economic Situation of First- and Second-Generation Immigrants in France, Germany, and the UK
Algan, Yann - 2009
also of subsequent generations. Little comparative work exists for Europe's largest economies. France, Germany and the UK …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155002
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The Labour Market Position of Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands : Reason for Migration, Naturalisation and Language Proficiency
Euwals, Rob; Dagevos, Jaco; Gijsberts, Mérove; … - 2007
). First, we find that educational attainment and language proficiency have a higher return in the Netherlands than in Germany … of labour migrants and their partners. The improvement is largely due to an improvement in educational attainment and …, while for Germany we find a negative relation with tenured employment. The contrasting results on tenured employment may be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014051625
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Intergenerational Education Mobility Among the Children of Canadian Immigrants
Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Chen, Wen-Hao; Corak, Miles - 2021
We analyze the intergenerational education mobility of Canadian men and women born to immigrants. A detailed portrait of Canadians is offered, as are estimates of the degree of generational mobility among the children of immigrants. Persistence in the years of schooling across the generations is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324910
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The Causal Effect of Parent's Schooling on Children's Schooling : A Comparison of Estimation Methods
Holmlund, Helena; Lindahl, Mikael; Plug, Erik - 2021
Recent studies that aim to estimate the causal link between the education of parents and their children provide evidence that is far from conclusive. This paper explores why. There are a number of possible explanations. One is that these studies rely on different data sources, gathered in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325043
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Successful Apprenticeship-to-Work Transitions : On the Long-Term Change in Significance of the German School-Leaving Certificate
Büchel, Felix - 2021
The quality of labor-market entry achieved by newly qualified apprentices in West Germany is analyzed from 1948 to 1992 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320663
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Economic Preferences and Attitudes of the Unemployed : Are Natives and Second Generation Migrants Alike?
Constant, Amelie F. - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134980
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Ethnicity, Job Search and Labor Market Reintegration of the Unemployed
Constant, Amelie F. - 2009
Germany. Our results indicate that separated migrants have a relatively slow reintegration into the labor market. We explain … in Germany. Our data include a large number of migration variables, allowing us to adapt a recently developed concept of … the labor market reintegration, patterns of job search, and reservation wages across unemployed migrants and natives in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013152952
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Immigration, Integration and the Labour Market : Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands
Euwals, Rob; Dagevos, Jaco; Gijsberts, Mérove; … - 2007
Germany and the Netherlands. We compare labour market outcomes of Turkish immigrants, including both the first and second … large for Germany. Differences in past immigration policies between Germany and the Netherlands are likely to be important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014051634
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What Divides the First and Second Generations? Family Time of Arrival and Educational Outcomes for Immigrant Youth
Hull, Marie - 2023
In this paper, I develop a measure of host country experience, which I call "relative time of arrival," to explore differences between first- and second-generation immigrants. This measure is finer than immigrant generation and expands on the widely used measures of years since migration and age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014261512