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The threat effect of participation in active labor market programs on job search behavior of migrants in Germany

Bergemann, Annette; Caliendo, Marco; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2011

Labor market programs may affect unemployed individuals' behavior before they enroll. Such ex ante effects may differ according to ethnic origin. We apply a novel method that relates self-reported perceived treatment rates and job search behavioral outcomes, such as the reservation wage or...

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Even education and experience has its limits: Closing the wage gap

Epstein, Gil S.; Gafni, Dalit; Siniver, Erez - 2014

Economic outcomes are compared for university graduates in Israel belonging to four different ethnic groups. A unique dataset is used that includes all individuals who graduated with a first degree from universities and colleges in Israel between the years 1995 and 2008 and which tracks them for...

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Job quality in segmented labor markets: The Israeli case

Neuman, Shoshana - 2014

common among the more vulnerable sub-populations of new-immigrants, disabled individuals, Israeli-Arabs, foreign-workers and …

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Ethnosizing immigrants: A theoretical framework

Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler, Odelia - 2014

, separation or marginalization. A large body of literature has emerged examining the effects of immigrants' characteristics (age …

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Age at immigration and high school dropouts

Cohen Goldner, Sarit; Epstein, Gil S. - 2014

dropout rate and age of arrival of the immigrants. Using repeated cross sectional data from the Israeli Labor Force Surveys of …

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Ethnic enclaves and welfare cultures: Quasi-experimental evidence

Åslund, Olof; Fredriksson, Peter - 2005

We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy …

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Immigrants' return to schooling in Sweden

Nordin, Martin - 2007

The aim of this paper is to examine if the returns to immigrants’ schooling are lower than the returns to natives …’ schooling. In addition the paper tries to establish whether immigrants who invest in different amounts of Swedish education also … differ in their returns to schooling. The results show that the difference in returns to schooling between immigrants and …

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Enclaves, language and the location choice of migrants

Bauer, Thomas; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2002

Empirical studies in the migration literature have shown that migration enclaves (networks) negatively affect the language proficiency of migrants. These studies, however, ignore the choice of location as a function of language skills. Using data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that...

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Wages of childhood immigrants in Sweden: Education, returns to education and overeducation

Katz, Katarina; Österberg, Torun - 2013

We analyse full-time monthly wages of employees with parents born in Sweden and of childhood immigrants who arrived …-European childhood immigrants and of those from Southern Europe suffer a wage disadvantage relative to natives, men to a larger extent … than women. Returns to education are generally lower for non-European childhood immigrants than for natives. Comparison …

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Ethnic Enclaves and Welfare Cultures - Quasi-experimental Evidence

Åslund, Olof; Fredriksson, Peter - 2005

We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy …

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