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The Economic Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market of Host Countries - Meta-Analytic Evidence
Longhi, Simonetta - 2011
The number of immigrants across the world has doubled since 1980. The estimates of the impact of immigration on wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122010
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Ethnic Employment Gaps of Graduates in the Netherlands
Bisschop, Paul; ter Weel, Bas; Zwetsloot, Jelle - 2020
This research documents ethnic employment gaps for labour-market entrants in the Netherlands in the period 2006-2016. We compare short-term and long-term differences in employment of Dutch graduates with graduates from Moroccan, Turkish, Antillean and Surinamese origin and other (non-)western...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014093305
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Social Networks and Labor Market Inequality between Ethnicities and Races
Toomet, Ott - 2012
This paper analyzes the relationship between unexplained racial/ethnic wage differentials on the one hand and social network segregation, as measured by inbreeding homophily, on the other hand. Our analysis is based on both U.S. and Estonian surveys, supplemented with Estonian telephone...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098047
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The Rationality behind Immigration Preferences
van Dalen, Hendrik P.; Henkens, Kène - 2004
of immigration? Does social interaction affect this preference or is the immigration preference completely in line with … immigration than the highly educated. Experience with foreigners arising from social contact matters in positively appreciating … significant effect on the evaluation of the number of foreigners present. The biggest effect on immigration preferences is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325461
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Immigration and Innovation in European Regions
Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2011
size, skills, and diversity of immigration on the innovativeness of host regions. For this purpose we construct a panel of …'s restaurants as a novel instrument for immigration. The results confirm that innovation is clearly a function of regio nal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326368
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Employment Assimilation of Immigrants in the Netherlands
Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - 2008
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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325696
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The Economic Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market of Host Countries - Meta-Analytic Evidence
Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2011
The number of immigrants across the world has doubled since 1980. The estimates of the impact of immigration on wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326500
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Input versus Output Taxation in an Experimental International Economy
Riedl, Arno; van Winden, Frans - 2003
This paper is concerned with a policy oriented macroeconomic experiment involving an 'international' economy with a relatively small 'home' country and a large 'foreign' country. It compares the economic performance of two alternative tax systems as a means to finance unemployment benefits: a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324982
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How Universal is Behavior?
Brandts, Jordi; Saijo, Tatsuyoshi; Schram, Arthur - 2002
This paper studies behavior in experiments with a linear voluntary contributions mechanism for public goods conducted in Japan, the Netherlands, Spain and the USA. The same experimental design was used in the four countries. Our 'contribution function' design allows us to obtain a view of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325039
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Born that way: Beliefs about genetics' importance and redistribution preferences
Pogliano, Andrea - 2024
Meritocratic fairness justifies inequality when it stems from performance. Yet performance is influenced by one's genetics. I investigate whether individuals' redistribution preferences are affected by their beliefs about genetics' role in generating performance inequality. In an incentivized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014547697