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Social capital and immigrants' labour market performance
Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Vaira Lucero, Matias - 2013
effect of social capital on migrants' employment outcomes and wages, especially for women. Distinguishing employment into … results suggest that promoting opportunities to create social capital has a beneficial effect on migrants' integration in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293123
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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
effect of social capital on migrants' employment outcomes and wages, especially for women. Distinguishing employment into … results suggest that promoting opportunities to create social capital has a beneficial effect on migrants' integration in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990925
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Labor Mobility, Trade and Social Capital
Schiff, Maurice - 2004
Labor market integration raises welfare in the absence of distortions. This paper examines labor and goods market integration in a general equilibrium model with social capital. The findings are: i) labor market integration has an ambiguous impact on welfare, and raises it if the goods produced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261794
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Social Networks and the Labour Market Mismatch
Kalfa, Eleni; Piracha, Matloob - 2015
This paper assesses the extent to which social contacts and ethnic concentration affect the education-occupation mismatch of natives and immigrants. Using Australian panel data and employing a dynamic random effects probit model, we show that social capital exacerbates the incidence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401764
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Labor Mobility, Trade and Social Capital
Schiff, Maurice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Labor market integration raises welfare in the absence of distortions. This paper examines labor and goods market integration in a general equilibrium model with social capital. The findings are: i) labor market integration has an ambiguous impact on welfare, and raises it if the goods produced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700960
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Cultural integration in Germany
Constant, Amelie F.; Nottmeyer, Olga; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
This chapter investigates the integration processes of immigrants in Germany by comparing certain immigrant groups to natives differentiating by gender and immigrant generation. Indicators which are supposed to capture cultural integration of immigrants are differences in marital behavior as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271257
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The effect of enclave residence on the labour force activities of immigrants in Canada
Tu, Jiong - 2010
immigrants' labour force participation rate and employment probability. For recent immigrants who arrived in Canada within the … positively related to their employment probability in all censuses. However, living in an enclave has no significant effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269543
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The psychic costs of migration: Evidence from Irish return migrants
Barrett, Alan; Mosca, Irene - 2012
alcohol problems than men who stayed. For women, we again see a higher incidence of alcohol problems for short-term migrants …. However, long-term female migrants are less likely to have suffered from alcohol problems. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282362
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Labour market status and migration dynamics
Bijwaard, Govert E. - 2009
Netherlands, which implies that all migrants are (self)-employed at the time of arrival. We find that many migrants leave the … country after a period of no-income. Employment characteristics and the country of origin play an important role in explaining … the dynamics. Microsimulations of synthetic cohorts reveal that many migrants experience unemployment spells, but ten …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269402
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Migrants from Ukraine and Belarus Living in Sweden before the War
Andersson, Fredrik W.; Wadensjö, Eskil - 2022
to refugees who come now in terms of finding employment depends, among other things, on the labor market position of the … former migrants in Sweden. Do they have work and if so what kind of work? In which parts of Sweden do they live? In this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470405