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Occupational adjustment of immigrants
Zorlu, Aslan - 2011
This paper examines the speed of the occupational adjustment of immigrants using Labour Force Surveys 2004 and 2005 from Statistics Netherlands. The analysis provides new evidence that immigrants start with jobs at the lower levels of skill distribution. Their occupational achievement improves...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282360
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Ethnic differences in realising desires to leave the neighbourhood
Boschman, Sanne; Kleinhans, Reinout; Ham, Maarten van - 2014
Selective mobility into and out of neighbourhoods is one of the driving forces of segregation. Empirical research has revealed who wants to leave certain types of neighbourhoods or who leaves certain neighbourhoods. A factor which has received little attention so far is that some residents will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010408999
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Incentives to identify : racial identity in the age of affirmative action
Antman, Francisca M.; Duncan, Brian - 2014
broader trends in racial disparities, and the emerging literature on the construction of race and individual identity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010463407
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Incentives to identify: a comment
Antman, Francisca M.; Duncan, Brian - 2019
Antman and Duncan (2014, 2015) document how racial identity responds to state affirmative action policy. The main … contribution of our work was to show that racial identity responds to state affirmative action policy. A coding error was recently … identity responds to state affirmative action policy, albeit with a different conclusion for multiracial blacks, and are now …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012116844
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Who will be idol? The importance of social networks for winning on reality shows
Heizler, Odelia; Kimhi, Ayal - 2010
This paper examines, both theoretically and empirically, the effect of social networks and belonging to minority groups (or race) on the probability of winning in reality television shows. We develop a theoretical model that studies viewer behavior by presenting a framework of competition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272669
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Multi-dimensional identities of the Hispanic population in the United States
Antman, Francisca M. - 2021
This essay discusses the multi-dimensional identities of the Hispanic population in the United States as represented in current surveys. It reviews some of the critical barriers in data collection methods that limit research studies on this population. Solutions are suggested that would improve...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012697243
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Labour Market Outcomes of Second Generation Immigrants: How Heterogeneous Are They Really?
Schurer, Stefanie - 2008
The second and third generation of immigrants have been the centre of a lively debate about the economic integration of immigrants into their host societies, but there is little empirical evidence on the German case. In this study I comprehensively portray the labour market outcomes of second...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264729
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Occupational adjustment of immigrants
Zorlu, Aslan - 2011
This paper examines the speed of the occupational adjustment of immigrants using Labour Force Surveys 2004 and 2005 from Statistics Netherlands. The analysis provides new evidence that immigrants start with jobs at the lower levels of skill distribution. Their occupational achievement improves...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009521185
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People Skills and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Underrepresented Groups
Borghans, Lex - 2014
In this article, the authors show that people skills are important determinants of labor-market outcomes, including occupational choice and wages. Technological and organizational changes have increased the importance of people skills in the workplace. The authors particularly focus on how the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055338
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Labour Market Outcomes of Second Generation Immigrants : How Heterogeneous are They Really?
Schurer, Stefanie - 2008
The second and third generation of immigrants have been the centre of a lively debate about the economic integration of immigrants into their host societies, but there is little empirical evidence on the German case. In this study I comprehensively portray the labour market outcomes of second...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014214113