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Effects of Job Entry Restrictions on Economic Integration - Evidence for Recent Ethnic German Immigrants
Brenner, Jan - 2007
We analyze the impact of job entry restrictions on the economic integration of recent ethnic German immigrants, using … probabilities of ethnic German immigrants and German natives and the employment probability in jobs that vary by the qualifications …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264697
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Do migrant-native achievement gaps narrow? Evidence over the school career
Vonnahme, Christina - 2021
The integration of foreign origin students in host countries' educational systems has mostly been studied based on cross-sectional data. In contrast, I use data from a national longitudinal education study to calculate achievement gaps in vocabulary, reading and math tests for foreign origin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822341
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Origin country conflict and immigrant physical health
Compton, Ryan A.; Craig, Andrea N.; Heger, Dörte; … - 2024
health outcomes of immigrants to Canada. Our results demonstrate that immigrants from conflict zones face unique physical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014502585
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The Costs of Babylon – Linguistic Distance in Applied Economics
Isphording, Ingo E.; Otten, Sebastian - 2012
immigrants is analyzed using data from the 2000 U.S. Census, the German Socio-Economic Panel, and the National Immigrant Survey … of Spain. Across countries, linguistic distance is negatively correlated with reported language skills of immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287350
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Linguistic Distance and the Language Fluency of Immigrants
Isphording, Ingo E.; Otten, Sebastian - 2011
Anthropology to explain heterogeneity in language skills of immigrants. This measure is based on an automatical algorithm comparing … of language skill heterogeneity between immigrants. By lowering the effi ciency and imposing higher costs of language …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287352
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Disadvantages of Linguistic Origin – Evidence from Immigrant Literacy Scores
Isphording, Ingo - 2013
This study quantifies the disadvantage in the formation of literacy skills of immigrants that arises from the … immigrants face significant initial disadvantages of linguistic origin that exceed existing differentials across wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290801
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Linguistic Distance and the Language Fluency of Immigrants
Isphording, Ingo E.; Otten, Sebastian - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2011
Anthropology to explain heterogeneity in language skills of immigrants. This measure is based on an automatical algorithm comparing … of language skill heterogeneity between immigrants. By lowering the effi ciency and imposing higher costs of language …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321168
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The Costs of Babylon – Linguistic Distance in Applied Economics
Isphording, Ingo E.; Otten, Sebastian - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2012
immigrants is analyzed using data from the 2000 U.S. Census, the German Socio-Economic Panel, and the National Immigrant Survey … of Spain. Across countries, linguistic distance is negatively correlated with reported language skills of immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010556738
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Effects of Job Entry Restrictions on Economic Integration - Evidence for Recent Ethnic German Immigrants
Brenner, Jan - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2007
We analyze the impact of job entry restrictions on the economic integration of recent ethnic German immigrants, using … probabilities of ethnic German immigrants and German natives and the employment probability in jobs that vary by the qualifications …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005548395
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Disadvantages of Linguistic Origin – Evidence from Immigrant Literacy Scores
Isphording, Ingo - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2013
This study quantifies the disadvantage in the formation of literacy skills of immigrants that arises from the … immigrants face significant initial disadvantages of linguistic origin that exceed existing differentials across wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010617558