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We compare the earnings and the intergenerational earnings mobility of immigrants with natives in Sweden. We find an … overall convergence in average earnings between immigrants and natives across generations. This convergence hides a divergence …
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questioned whether unfavorable trends in African-American wages and employment outcomes are tied to Mexican immigration. This … source of depression of wages for African-Americans stems not just from immigration. In fact, in some ways, occupation … clustering and specialization of Mexican immigrants mitigates impact of immigration on African-Americans on a whole range of low …
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-Americans. The immigration process selects black immigrants who have or who would have achieved middle income or higher status in …
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Immigrants experience substantial disadvantages in employment in the host country. "Ethnic capital" (e.g. the ethnic network) is argued to provide a niche for immigrants. Previous international studies adopt either ethnic concentration or language as proxy for immigrants' network in host...
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We compare the earnings and the intergenerational earnings mobility of immigrants with natives in Sweden. We find an … overall convergence in average earnings between immigrants and natives across generations. This convergence hides a divergence …
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In this paper, we employ register data for eight cohorts of second-generation immigrant pupils to identify the impact of each parent’s years since migration on their children’s school achievements. We exploit variation in years since migration and within-family variation. We find evidence of...
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This paper assesses the intergenerational effect of immigrant parents' incorporation experiences, measured as time in Sweden, on the educational performance of their children, using full Swedish population registry data for 22 cohorts. Employing family fixed-effects, we examine final course...
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study the effect high skill immigration on productivity. Using a unique data set on manufacturing firms, I investigate …
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This paper documents the effect of immigrant concentration on natives’ work schedules. I show that immigrants are more … local labor market is associated with a lower probability of employed natives working non‐standard shifts. Results are … increase in the foreign population residing in a province is associated to a 4% reduction in the natives’ likelihood of working …
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natives and that there is no return to pre-immigration work experience, suggesting imperfect transferability of human capital … immigrants and natives. It is the first paper analysing this topic using data drawn from the Italian Labour Force Survey, a large … findings suggest that, contrary to what is observed for natives, immigrants' human capital does not contribute to getting …
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