Similar Search Results

Measuring labour differences between natives, non-natives, and natives with an ethnic-minority background

Drydakis, Nick - 2017

Through a field study we measure differences in employment outcomes between natives, non-natives, and natives with an ethnic-minority background. It is suggested that the joint effect of productivity uncertainties and distastes against ethnic-minority groups should be higher for non-natives than...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731892

Cultural and economic integration of immigrants in Canada : "do you play hockey?"

Japaridze, Irakli; Kaplan, Uma - In: Journal for labour market research 57 (2023) 1, pp. 1-14

This paper studies whether acculturation by immigrants and other minority groups is associated with economic integration in Canada. We examine immigrants’ participation in winter sports, particularly hockey, as a proxy for acculturation given that these sports are popular in Canada but are...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014430030

National Origin Differences in Wages and Hierarchical Positions - Evidence on French Full-Time Male Workers from a matched Employer-Employee Dataset

AEBERHARDT, R.; POUGET, J. - Département des Études Économiques d'Ensemble (D3E), … - 2010

potentially discriminated group is small. Our results show no wage discrimination but a certain degree of occupational segregation … diplomas might reveal mechanisms of statistical discrimination on the labor market. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466042

Endowment or discrimination? : an analysis of immigrant-native earnings differentials in Switzerland

Golder, Stefan M. - 2000

-economic endowments or to discrimination. We use the well-known econometric technique, developed by Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973), to … determine the extent of discrimination. As data on earnings are available only for employed, we adopt a two-stage Heckman … (SLFS). The decomposition of the earnings differential reveals that the discrimination effect plays a more important role in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476143

Endowment or Discrimination? An Analysis of Immigrant-Native Earnings Differentials in Switzerland

Golder, Stefan M. - 2000

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260561

"Tongue tide": The economics of language offers important lessons for how Europe can best integrate migrants

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2016

This policy analysis discusses issues regarding the migration to Europe of large numbers of immigrants and refugees who, on arrival, do not know their host country's language. It reviews problems of economic integration into the labor market, the consequences of the formation of immigrant...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011637944

Legal status at entry, economic performance, and self-employment proclivity: a bi-national study of immigrants

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2005

There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272326

Limits to Wage Growth: Understanding the Wage Divergence between Immigrants and Natives

Jain, Apoorva; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2017

and employment participation. Empirical evidence favors the "efficiency" over the "discrimination" channels of wage …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744603

"Tongue tide" : the economics of language offers important lessons for how Europe can best integrate migrants

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2016

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011516716

Limits to wage growth : understanding the wage divergence between immigrants and natives

Jain, Apoorva; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2017

and employment participation. Empirical evidence favors the "efficiency" over the "discrimination" channels of wage …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704320