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effects of over-education and overskilling among immigrants graduating from EU 15 based universities in 2005. Female … immigrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a higher likelihood of overskilling. Newly arrived immigrants … and overeducation in the female labour market. Established immigrants were found to enjoy a wage premia, particularly …
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effects of over-education and overskilling among immigrants graduating from EU 15 based universities in 2005. Female … immigrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a higher likelihood of overskilling. Newly arrived immigrants … and overeducation in the female labour market. Established immigrants were found to enjoy a wage premia, particularly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959708
-time employment, usually while attending an education institution. Three years after arrival one third of NES immigrants are now …Three decades ago most immigrants to Australia with work entitlements came as permanent settlers. Today the annual … immigrants come first as a temporary immigrant, to work or study, and then seek to move to permanent status. Around one half of …
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This paper analyzes the Hebrew language proficiency, probability of employment, and labor market earnings of immigrants … features of the analysis include the study of long-duration immigrants (3 to 20 years), and analyses for: males and females … and non-Jewish immigrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU), in addition to standard immigration, demographic, and human …
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had a negative effect on employment opportunities of immigrants. The results show that firms that use PCs intensively and … firms that give their employees broad autonomy employ fewer non-Western immigrants who have not been raised in Norway (i ….e. arrived as adults). Furthermore, the negative relationships are especially strong for low-skilled non-Western immigrants …
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We estimate models of earnings and employment outcomes for a sample of white and non-white male immigrants drawn from … the Labour Force Survey between 1993 and 2002. Immigrants who arrived to enter the labour market are distinguished from … lower earnings for non-white immigrants. …
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Using two Dutch labour force surveys, employment assimilation of immigrants is examined. We observe marked differences … between immigrants by source country. Non-western immigrants never reach parity with native Dutch. Even second generation … immigrants never fully catch up. Caribbean immigrants, who share a colonial history with the Dutch, assimilate relatively quick …
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We use data on refugees admitted to the Netherlands that include registration of education in their homeland by immigration officers. Such data are seldom available. We investigate the quality and reliability of the registrations and then use them to assess effects on refugees' economic position...
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the housing bust. An analysis of employment and unemployment rates over the past 15 years shows that immigrants' labor … market outcomes are more cyclical than those of natives. The greater cyclicality of immigrants' employment and unemployment …Immigrants have figured prominently in U.S. economic growth for decades, but the recent recession hit them hard …
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Upon arrival to a new country, many immigrants face job downgrading, a phenomenon describing workers being in jobs far … below where they would be assigned based on their skills. Downgrading leads to immigrants receiving lower returns to the … examines the determinants of skill downgrading among two types of immigrants – refugees and economic immigrants – in the German …
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