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Constant, Amelie F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often...

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An Auction Model of Canadian Temporary Immigration for the 21st Century

DeVoretz, Don J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Temporary Canadian immigration has grown beyond traditional programs for students, caregivers and agricultural workers …

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The Labor Market Costs of Conflict: Closures, Foreign Workers, and Palestinian Employment and Earnings

Miaari, Sami H.; Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In this paper, we measure the implications of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for Palestinian employment and earnings. We quantify the conflict by the frequency of temporary closures of the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the number of overseas foreign workers in the Israeli labor market. Data on...

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The Impact of Immigration on the Employment of Natives in Regional Labour Markets: A Meta-Analysis

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Immigration is a phenomenon of growing significance in many countries. Increasing social tensions are leading to … countries has been exceeded and social cohesion threatened. There is also in public discourse a common perception of immigration … immigration on labour market outcomes. We apply meta-analytic techniques to 165 estimates from 9 recent studies for various OECD …

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The Effect of Rehabilitative Punishments on Juvenile Crime and Labor Market Outcomes

Huttunen, Kristiina; Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Mälkönen, Ville - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper estimates the effect of a rehabilitative punishment on the post-release outcomes of juvenile criminals using a unique Finnish data set on sentences and punishments merged with the longitudinal population census for 1990-2007. The rehabilitative program was aimed at improving the...

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Social Capital and Immigrants' Labour Market Performance

Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Vaira-Lucero, Matias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper analyses the role of social capital on immigrants' labour market outcomes. We use the "principal component analysis" (PCA) to build an index of social networks and explore its impact on the probability of getting a job and on wage levels using the Households Income and Labour Dynamics...

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Disadvantages of Linguistic Origin: Evidence from Immigrant Literacy Scores

Isphording, Ingo E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This study quantifies the disadvantage in the formation of literacy skills of immigrants that arises from the linguistic distance between mother tongue and host country language. Combining unique cross-country data on literacy scores with information on the linguistic distance between languages,...

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Linguistic Barriers in the Destination Language Acquisition of Immigrants

Isphording, Ingo E.; Otten, Sebastian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

There are various degrees of similarity between the languages of different immigrants and the language of their destination country. This linguistic distance is an obstacle to the acquisition of a language, which leads to large differences in the attainments of the language skills necessary for...

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Overeducation among Immigrants in Sweden: Incidence, Wage Effects and State-Dependence

Andersson Joona, Pernilla; Datta Gupta, Nabanita; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied extensively. In the Swedish context this question is of great policy relevance due to the high levels of refugee migration and inflow of tied movers. Using Swedish register data...

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Are Immigrants Competing with Natives in the Italian Labour Market? The Employment Effect

Venturini, Alessandra; Villosio, Claudia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Gavosto, Venturini, Villosio (1999) find that the impact of foreign workers on the wage of natives was positive. Such a result was partly to be expected, and therefore the effect of immigrants on native employment is analyzed here. Two aspects of the unemployment experience are taken into...

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