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Purpose -- The purpose of this paper is to study opinions and attitudes towards immigrants and minorities and their …
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is a very important location factor and implies that a location may attract current immigrants mainly because it … attracted previous immigrants, even if the traditional location factors are not a source of attractiveness. Research limitations … level of concentration of immigrants is a well known stylized fact, there is almost no study of the factors explaining this …
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Purpose – Labor market programs may affect unemployed individuals' behavior before they enroll. The aim of this paper is to study whether such ex ante effects differ according to ethnic origin. Design/methodology/approach – The authors apply a method that relates self-reported perceived...
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Purpose – The aim of this paper is to study the economic effects of risk attitudes, time preferences, trust and reciprocity and to compare natives and second generation migrants. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is based on the IZA Evaluation Dataset, a recently collected survey of a...
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more than half of the total immigrants in Spain, and unlike other host countries, they come from a highly varied range of …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the special issue on “Disadvantaged workers in the labour market” and to draw some policy implications that are common to the studies included in the special issue. Design/methodology/approach – The paper introduces several econometric...
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Purpose – This paper seeks to shed further light on the native-migrant differences in economic outcomes. The aim is to investigate labor market reintegration, patterns of job search, and reservation wages across unemployed migrants and natives in Germany. Design/methodology/approach – The...
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Purpose – Self-employment has been stressed as a way for immigrants to enter and improve their situation in the labour … immigrants. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses micro-econometric methods to estimate the effect of self …, self-employment, with few exceptions, does not improve outcomes in the wage sector of immigrants and may in fact be …
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Purpose – There is now a large amount of literature on immigrants' relative earnings and immigrants' earnings … earnings gap between different groups of immigrants and natives at different parts of the earnings distribution in Sweden … are differences in the earnings gap between different groups of immigrants and natives at the top and the bottom of the …
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by their training expenditure per employee), and objective career success indicators (wage and promotions) for non-immigrants …
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