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This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to analyze the labor market experience of high-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high-skilled occupations than natives, but the gap between the two...
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This paper explores the impact of English language proficiency and country of origin on the occupational choice of high-skilled immigrants in the U.S. using the 2000 Census. The findings reveal that high-skilled immigrants with limited proficiency in English, or whose mother tongue is...
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This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic components of ethnicity -country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion - among persons admitted to legal permanent residence in the United States in 2003 in the...
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This paper examines the incidence of the mismatch of the educational attainment and the occupation of employment, and the impact of this mismatch on the earnings, of high-skilled adult male immigrants in the US labor market. Analyses for high-skilled adult male native-born workers are also...
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Attracting skilled immigrants is emerging as an important policy goal for immigrant receiving countries. This article first discusses the economic rationale for immigrant selection. Selection mechanisms of receiving countries are reviewed in the context of deteriorating labor market outcomes for...
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find that there is some - albeit limited - evidence of firms using migrants to address high skill shortages. However, the … overwhelming majority of migrants are skilled or unskilled workers; a reflection of the low underlying rates of innovation and …
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social traits of parents has an effect on the segregation of minorities and migrants. …
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This paper examines the residential mobility behaviour of migrants and natives in the Netherlands using a rich … to be about 18 percentage points lower for non-western migrants than for natives. About 65 percent of the differential is …. No indication is found of the spatial assimilation of second-generation non-western migrants. On the other hand, the …
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mobility behaviour of migrants and natives are generated by neighbourhood characteristics - among which the level of ethnic … individual data covering the entire population of the city. The analysis shows that Caribbean (Surinamese and Antillean) migrants … significantly hamper the out-mobility of all individuals. The impact of family ties is the largest for Turkish and Moroccan migrants. …
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suggest that the educational gap between natives and migrants is mainly due to the 'endowment effect' provided by the … socioeconomic background of parents and cultural capital at home. Some adverse 'integration effects' do exist for female migrants in …
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