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This paper analyzes the changing characteristics of Chinese immigrants to Canada between 1980 and 2001. It reveals that recent Chinese immigrants to Canada constitute a substantially different group from those of former years. They are no longer a homogeneous group from the rural areas of...
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green card has a significant positive effect on skilled migrants' labor market outcomes. …
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This paper uses U.S. Census data from 1990 and 2000 to provide evidence on the labor market characteristics of European-born workers living in the US. It is found that there is a positive wage premium associated with these workers, and that the highly skilled are overrepresented compared with...
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modelling and then combine a sample of Dutch migrants in New Zealand with a representative sample of Dutch in The Netherlands to …
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compare the wages of returned migrants with the wages of those who stayed in Ireland. In a recent paper, it has been argued … that returned migrants accumulate skills and competencies while away that are rewarded on return to the home country. We … more. No wage premium is found for female returning migrants relative to female stayers. …
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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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We study the role of ethnic networks in migrants' job search and the quality of jobs they find in the first years of … result of restrictions in welfare eligibility since 1997, we study whether this increases the probability that new migrants … view. However, accounting for their higher employability, new migrants seem to fare better up to a year and half after …
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