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Virtues of SIN: Effects of an immigrant workplace introduction program
Åslund, Olof; Johansson, Per - 2006
We evaluate an immigrant workplace introduction program aimed at helping individuals considered employable but at the same time expected to experience substantial difficulties in finding work. Using supported employment methods, the SIN program may influence outcomes through several channels. We...
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Unemployment and Attitudes Towards Foreigners in the European Union: A Statistical Analysis
Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco - 1996
the employed. On the other hand, an increased concentration of immigrants in local neighborhoods significantly increases … increased visibility of immigrants in Europe, not the rise of unemployment rates per se, that has been associated with recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334277
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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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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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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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International Trade and Labor Market Integration of Immigrants
Lodefalk, Magnus; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Tang, Aili - 2020
We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate … immigrants from that country. By hiring immigrants, a firm may access foreign knowledge and networks needed to overcome …, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We …
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International Trade and Labor Market - Integration of Immigrants
Lodefalk, Magnus; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Tang, Aili - 2020
We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate … immigrants from that country. By hiring immigrants, a firm may access foreign knowledge and networks needed to overcome …, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We …
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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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The temporal welfare state: a cross-national comparison
Rice, James Mahmud; Goodin, Robert E.; Parpo, Antti - 2006
Welfare states contribute to people's well-being in many different ways. Bringing all these contributions under a common metric is tricky. Here we propose doing so through the notion of temporal autonomy: the freedom to spend one's time as one pleases, outside the necessities of everyday life....
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