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Employment Assimilation of Immigrants in the Netherlands
Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Institute - 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,...
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Employment Assimilation of Immigrants in the Netherlands
Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
Forthcoming in the <I>International Journal of Population Research</I>, Vol. 2012.<P> 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....</p></i>
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The Rationality behind Immigration Preferences
Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Henkens, Kène - Tinbergen Instituut - 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 …
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A Meta-Analytic Assessment of the Effect of Immigration on Wages
Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Institute - 2004
-economic phenomenon for many countries. Since the early 1980s, many studies have been undertaken of the impact of immigration on host … labour markets. Borjas (2003) noted that the estimated effect of immigration on the wage of native workers varies widely from … immigration on wages of native groups with similar skills appears rather robust. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137039
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A Meta-Analytic Assessment of the Effect of Immigration on Wages
Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
-economic phenomenon for many countries. Since the early 1980s, many studies have been undertaken of the impact of immigration on host … labour markets. Borjas (2003) noted that the estimated effect of immigration on the wage of native workers varies widely from … immigration on wages of native groups with similar skills appears rather robust. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256215
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How Diverse can Spatial Measures of Cultural Diversity be? Results from Monte Carlo Simulations on an Agent-Based Model
Arribas-Bel, Daniel; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
Cultural diversity is a complex and multi-faceted concept. Commonly used quantitative measures of the spatial distribution of culturally-defined groups 'such as segregation, isolation or concentration indexes' are often only capable of identifying just one aspect of this distribution. The...
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The Effect of Immigration on Native Earnings
Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000
low skillednatives. Secondly, the effect of an immigration flow by 5% of the total labourforce on native earnings … isexamined along three scenarios using a general equilibrium model. It is foundthat immigration has a largenegative effect on the … skilled than natives. In the case thatimmigration flow is mainlycomposed of high skilled workers, immigration has a relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257038
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Car ownership and the Labor Market of Ethnic Minorities
Gautier, Pieter A.; Zenou, Yves - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
We show how small initial wealth differences between low skilled black and white workers can generate large differences in their labor-market outcomes. This even occurs in the absence of a taste for discrimination against blacks or exogenous differences in the distance to jobs. Because of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257387
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Migration and Immigrants: The Case of the Netherlands
Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Institute - 2001
This paper surveys migration to and from the Netherlands since the sixteenth century with an emphasis on the post-war period. Existing studies on the labour market performance of immigrants and ethnic minorities are considered and some new results from our recent research are presented. <BR><BR>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137037
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Car ownership and the Labor Market of Ethnic Minorities
Gautier, Pieter A.; Zenou, Yves - Tinbergen Institute - 2008
We show how small initial wealth differences between low skilled black and white workers can generate large differences in their labor-market outcomes. This even occurs in the absence of a taste for discrimination against blacks or exogenous differences in the distance to jobs. Because of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137294