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Due to the growth in international migration in recent decades, the workforce of firms in host countries has become considerably more diverse, both demographically and culturally. It is an important question for firms and for governments to ask whether there are some productivity-enhancing...
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fragmentation, and increasing global integration on recent growth experience. Our longitudinal data consists of 103 countries … more from global integration. This suggests the importance of globalization in redressing the detrimental impact of ethnic …
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evidence from laboratory experiments on the cultural integration of individuals of Chinese ethnicity in Australia, focusing on …
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Using comprehensive data for German establishments (1999-2008), we estimate plant-level production functions to analyze if cultural diversity affects total factor productivity. We distinguish diversity in the establishment's workforce and in the aggregate regional labor force where the plant is...
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We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and …
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facilitating and speeding up the integration of refugees and their family into the labor market and the society. From December 1 …, 2010 the reform transferred the responsibility for the integration of newly-arrived refugees from the municipalities to the … was motived by concern over the low employment level and slow integration of refugees. Our approach is to compare the …
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establishment of refugees and their family. From December 1, 2010 the reform transferred the responsibility for the integration of … employment level and slow integration of refugees. Our approach is to compare the outcomes of the Treatment group, which took …
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their labour market and social integration outcomes. Language proficiency appears ranked according to linguistic distance to … on two objective indicators of integration (employment and income) and two subjective measures (feeling Dutch and feeling … for endogeneity, effects of Dutch language proficiency on social and economic integration of immigrants are more than …
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Integration of immigrants is a two-way process involving immigrants and the host country society. An underexplored … question is how events of xenophobic violence in the host country affect the integration of immigrants. For this purpose, I …-economic integration of immigrants. In particular, it reduces subjective well-being and increases return intentions, while it reduces …
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integration as foreigners. A majority of young Ethnic Germans have no cultural or language ties to Germany. Insufficient language …
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