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market outcomes, which are all well know elements for the economic assimilation of immigrants. …
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Canonical human capital theories posit that education, by enhancing worker skills, reduces the likelihood that a worker … education records from 1987 through 2002 to nationally representative surveys conducted before and after the onset of COVID-19 … in Barbados to explore the causal impact of improved education on job loss during this period. Using a regression …
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We comment on the work of Hanushek et al. (2015) and show that returns to skills are very heterogeneous and depend crucially on the tasks performed in the workplace, in line with the critique by Acemoglu and Autor (2011). Depending on the type of tasks performed at work, as well as on...
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is more connected. Lump sum transfers to immigrants can hinder cultural integration. These findings are in line with …
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This paper analyzes wage differences between natives and immigrants in Austria. First, we show that for both groups … immigrants. When adding literacy skills to the wage decomposition, the discriminatory part vanishes completely, suggesting that … the wage difference between immigrants and natives in Austria can be to a large extent explained. Furthermore, we account …
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This paper explores potential explanations behind the educational gap between young natives and immigrants using two … measures, negative attitudes towards immigrants and networking, which may influence natives and immigrants differently. The … that these parameters may influence high and uneducated workers as well as immigrants and natives differently, creating …
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This paper analyses the employment experiences of the recent wave of Middle Eastern refugees (from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran) in the Austrian job market. The emphasis in this research was to investigate whether refugees experienced an initial (sharp) downgrade in their occupational...
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