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Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel

Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. However, in some countries where labor markets...

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The difference between wages and wage potentials: Earnings disadvantages of immigrants in Germany

Lang, Günter - In: Journal of Economic Inequality 3 (2005) 1, pp. 21-42

systematic differences between natives and migrants for GSOEP data for the year 2000. While empirical results clearly support the …

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An American in Berlin: reflections on the German demographic challenge, immigration, and national identity

Behr, Michelle - In: Population Research and Policy Review 25 (2006) 5, pp. 465-477

challenge, acting in concert with immigration, is that the German population will become more diverse over time. Perhaps the …

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The German Integration Panel – how to measure the influence of integration courses on migrants’ integration?

Rother, Nina - In: Migration Letters 7 (2010) 1, pp. 43-55

In 2005, Germany’s Federal Government introduced integration courses in order to enable migrants to improve their …,000 migrants were granted the right to take part in an integration course. Several methodological challenges had to be overcome …

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Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel

Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

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The Role of Turkish Immigrants in Entrepreneurial Activities in Germany

Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Zimmermann, … - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2005

This paper addresses a central issue to migration the role of immigrants in entrepreneurial activity. In particular, the paper focuses on the determinants of the decision to become an entrepreneur for Turks living in Germany. The paper provides some important benchmarks, including the...

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Immigration and Economic Growth: Do Origin and Destination Matter?

Kang, Young ho; Kim, Byung Yeon - Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic … - 2012

This paper assesses the heterogeneous effects of immigration on economic growth depending on both the origin and the …-GMM estimator. We find that immigration from developed economies positively affects the economic growth of the host countries …. Furthermore, the growth-enhancing effect of immigration is significantly larger when immigration flows from developed to …

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The Immigrant-Native Wage Gap in Germany

Aldashev, Alisher; Gernandt, Johannes; Thomsen, Stephan L. - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 232 (2012) 5, pp. 490-517

Immigrant-native wage differentials are observed in many countries, so in Germany. However, the available empirical literature for Germany defined the groups in consideration, immigrants and natives, by citizenship. This limits the explanatory power of the estimates since citizenship...

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Immigrant Selection Systems and Occupational Outcomes of International Medical Graduates in Canada and the United States

McDonald, James Ted; Warman, Casey; Worswick, Christopher - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2012

We analyze the process of immigrant selection and occupational outcomes of International Medical Graduates (IMGs) in the US and Canada. The IMG relicensing model of Kugler and Sauer (2005) is extended to incorporate two different approaches to immigrant selection: employer nomination systems and...

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Immigration, fertility and human capital: A model of economic decline of the West

Azarnert, Leonid V. - Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University - 2010

I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous … low-skilled workers lose from unskilled immigration even if the indigenous low-skilled workers do not finance …

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