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Community leaders and the preservation of cultural traits
Prummer, Anja; Siedlarek, Jan-Peter - 2016
We explain persistent differences in cultural traits of immigrant groups with the presence of community leaders. Leaders influence the cultural traits of their community, which have an impact on the group's earnings. They determine whether a community will be more assimilated and wealthier or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011576268
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Gender, social networks and peformance
Lindenlaub, Ilse; Prummer, Anja - 2016
This paper documents gender differences in social ties and develops a theory that links them to disparities in men's and women's labor market performance. Men's networks lead to better access to information, women's to higher peer pressure. Both affect effort in a model of teams, each beneficial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011576290
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Impact evaluation of the job youth training program Projoven
Díaz, Juan José; Rosas, David - 2016
), allowing for a more accurate measure of formal employment. It also measures whether socioemotional skills of beneficiaries … improved with program participation. The evaluation finds a high long term positive impact of Projoven on formal employment. It … also finds certain heterogeneity of program impacts across subpopulations. Impacts on formal employment vary depending on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011472128
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Experimental evidence on the long term impacts of a youth training program
Ibarrarán, Pablo; Kluve, Jochen; Ripani, Laura; Rosas … - 2015
findings document significant impacts on the formality of employment, particularly for men, and impacts for both men and women … and growing over time. There are no impacts on average employment, which is consistent with the low unemployment in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011473421
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Hidden costs of ban the box laws : unraveling the effects on drug-related deaths
Cheipesh, Oleksandra - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014447465
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Should I Stay or Must I Go? Temporary Protection and Refugee Outcomes
Kilström, Matilda; Larsen, Birthe; Olme, Elisabet - 2018
low skilled individuals. In terms of employment and earnings, coefficients are in general negative but non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012142386
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Refugees' integration into the Austrian labour market : dynamics of occupational mobility and job-skills mismatch
Leitner, Sandra M.; Landesmann, Michael - 2020
This paper analyses the employment experiences of the recent wave of Middle Eastern refugees (from Syria, Iraq … initial (sharp) downgrade in their occupational status when they accepted their first employment, compared with the occupation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012294869
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Race-based educational, occupational and industry segregation and wages gaps in Trinidad and Tobago
Schimanski, Caroline; Chagalj, Cristian; Ruprah, Inder S. - 2018
In the light of Trinidad and Tobago’s colonial history, its labour market is characterized by two about equal sized majority racial groups that had during colonialism been highly segregated in terms of education, occupation, industry and sector of work and facing a large institutionalized pay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011926189
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Medium and long run economic assimilation of Venezuelan migrants to Peru
Torres, Javier; Beverinotti, Javier; … - 2024
In a span of six years, the proportion of Venezuelans in Perú has surged nearly fourfold, rising from virtually zero to over 4% of the population. This study delves into the dynamics of medium- and long-term labor market integration in Perú, combining data from the Venezuelan Population...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014537370
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Occupational trajectories among refugees in Austria : the role of co-ethnic and austrian social networks in job search
Leitner, Sandra M. - 2023
This paper analyses occupational trajectories of refugees from their last job in the home country to their first and current jobs in Austria and the role of co-ethnic and Austrian social networks in job search, using data from a large-scale survey of recognised refugees from Syria, Afghanistan,...
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