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Self-Employment and Earnings among High-Skilled Immigrants in the United States

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2000

This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to analyze the labor market experience of high-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high-skilled occupations than natives, but the gap between the two...

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Did employer sanctions lose their bite? Labor market effects of immigrant legalization

Lofstrom, Magnus; Hill, Laura; Hayes, Joseph - 2010

experienced increased wages as a result of receiving amnesty through the 1986 Immigration and Reform Control Act during the 1990s …

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Employment and Wage Assimilation of Male First Generation Immigrants in Denmark

Husted, Leif; Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Rosholm, Michael; … - 2000

Labour market assimilation of Danish first generation male immigrants is analysed based on two panel data sets covering the population of immigrants and 10% of the Danish population during 1984-1995. Wages and employment probabilities are estimated jointly in a random effects model which...

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The Times They are A-Changin'

Rosholm, Michael; Scott, Kirk; Husted, Leif - 2001

This article compares and contrasts male immigrant labor market experiences in Sweden and Denmark during the period 1985 - 1995. Using register-based panel data sets from Sweden and Denmark, a picture of the employment assimilation process of immigrants from Norway, Poland, Turkey, and Iran is...

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Immigration Labor and Workplace Safety

Bauer, Thomas K.; Million, Andreas; Rotte, Ralph; … - 1998

Using standard as well as recently developed univariate and bivariate count data models, this paper analyzes the determinants of workplace accidents using a firm data set for Germany. Given the tight system of public workplace safety regulation, introduced partly as early as in 1869, and the...

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The Dynamics of Immigrant Welfare and Labor Market Behavior

Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2001

This paper analyzes transitions into and out of 3 different labor market states, social assistance, unemployment and employment. We estimate a dynamic multinomial logit model, controlling for endogenous initial condition and unobserved heterogeneity, using a large representative Swedish panel...

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Immigration Policy, Assimilation of Immigrants and Natives' Sentiments towards Immigrants: Evidence from 12 OECD-Countries

Bauer, Thomas K.; Lofstrom, Magnus; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2000

As in the U.S. and Canada, migration is a controversial issue in Europe. This paper explores the possibility that … immigration policy may affect the labor market assimilation of immigrants and hence natives? sentiments towards immigrants. It … immigration countries. Second, a new analysis of individual data from the OECD countries studies sentiments concerning immigration …

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Intergenerational Transmissions and the School-to-Work Transition of 2nd Generation Immigrants

Skyt Nielsen, Helena; Rosholm, Michael; Smith, Nina; … - 2001

We analyse the extent of intergenerational transmission through parental capital, ethnic capital and neighbourhood effects on several aspects of the school-to-work transition of 2 nd generation immigrants and young ethnic Danes. The main findings are that parental capital has strong positive...

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