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Legal status at entry, economic performance, and self-employment proclivity: a bi-national study of immigrants
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2005
migrants who arrive through family reunification are less likely to work full-time; refugees are also less self-employed. Those …-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success. Particular attention is paid to the role of legal status at entry in the …, although only among a number of other determinants. For Germany, legal status at entry is important; former refugees and those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272326
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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-employment Proclivity: A Bi-national Study of Immigrants
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
migrants who arrive through family reunification are less likely to work full-time; refugees are also less self-employed. Those …-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success. Particular attention is paid to the role of legal status at entry in the …, although only among a number of other determinants. For Germany, legal status at entry is important; former refugees and those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762301
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Immigrant Assimilation and Welfare Participation: Do Immigrants Assimilate Into or Out-of Welfare
Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999
that immigrants lower their participation rates in welfare with time spent in Sweden. Refugees display substantially higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262321
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Location choices of migrant nest-leavers: Spatial assimilation or continued segregation?
Zorlu, Aslan; Mulder, Clara H. - 2010
We examine ethnic differences in the ethnic composition of the destination neighbourhood upon leaving the parental home using administrative data for the entire birth cohort 1983 living in the Netherlands. The analysis provides little evidence of a clear intergenerational break in the location...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285523
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Immigrant versus Native Businesswomen : Proclivity and Performance
Constant, Amelie F. - 2004
business careers, and by investigating differences between native women (both from West and East Germany) and migrants using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272295
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How immigration may affect US native entrepreneurship: Theoretical building blocks and preliminary results
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; Regets, Mark - 2012
impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are easier to … perspectives that focus on low-cost immigrant labor or immigrant entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283971
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Economic Strain, Ethnic Concentration and Attitudes Towards Foreigners in the European Union
Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002
This paper provides a statistical analysis of the determinants of attitudes towards foreigners displayed by Europeans sampled in Eurobarometer surveys in 1988 and 1997. Europeans who compete with immigrants in the labor market have more negative attitudes towards foreigners. In addition, an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262673
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Labor Market Incorporation of Immigrants in Japan and the United States: A Comparative Analysis
Cornelius, Wayne A.; Tsuda, Takeyuki - 2002
The most commonly used model of labor market incorporation among immigrants in the United States analyzes their earnings largely as a function of human capital variables such as education, language competence, age, length of residence and employment experience in the receiving country. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262776
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Immigrants at new destinations: How they fare and why
Carneiro, Anabela; Fortuna, Natércia; Varejão, José - 2010
market. Results previously reported for countries with a long tradition of hosting migrants are also valid in a new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269812
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Do immigrants displace native workers? Evidence from matched panel data
Martins, Pedro S.; Piracha, Matloob; Varejão, José - 2012
Using matched employer-employee data, we analyse the impact of immigrants on natives' employment in Portugal. Using different model specifications, we show that the natives and immigrants are 'complements' at most occupation levels, in the sense that they are jointly hired and fired. Controlling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283992