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This paper studies the distributions of literacy skills, education, and employment of immigrants and natives in three … skills, schooling, and employment across countries. For immigrants, the relations differ strongly: whereas literacy skills … adverse employment effects for immigrants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010678277
Life cycle wages of immigrants from developing countries fall short of catching up with wages of natives. Using linked … inferior wage growth of immigrants primarily results from failure to advance to higher paying establishments over time. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011051679
Labour market outcomes of immigrants and natives are affected differently by macroeconomic conditions. In particular …, we show that earnings of immigrants in Norway from outside the OECD area are more sensitive to local labour market … Norway: An observed drop in relative earnings of non-OECD immigrants after about 10 years in the host country disappears when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284468
We provide evidence on wage profiles of immigrants using CPS data from 1979 to 2001, taking into account that changes … in labor market conditions impact natives and immigrants differently. High rates of immigrant wage assimilation in … unemployment, we find that wage assimilation among lesser-educated immigrants is negligible and that the immigrant-native wage gap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284479
This paper studies the distributions of literacy skills, education, and employment of immigrants and natives in three … skills, schooling, and employment across countries. For immigrants, the relations differ strongly: whereas literacy skills … adverse employment effects for immigrants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968500
Labour market outcomes of immigrants and natives are affected differently by macroeconomic conditions. In particular …, we show that earnings of immigrants in Norway from outside the OECD area are more sensitive to local labour market … Norway: An observed drop in relative earnings of non-OECD immigrants after about 10 years in the host country disappears when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005424096
Immigrants from low‐income source countries tend to be underrepresented in employment and overrepresented in social … significantly larger for immigrants. Among female immigrant program participants, earnings of the male spouse also drop in response … of immigrants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873486
We provide evidence on wage profiles of immigrants using CPS data from 1979 to 2001, taking into account that changes … in labor market conditions impact natives and immigrants differently. High rates of immigrant wage assimilation in … unemployment, we find that wage assimilation among lesser-educated immigrants is negligible and that the immigrant-native wage gap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005652187
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012040477
Immigrants from low‐income source countries tend to be underrepresented in employment and overrepresented in social … significantly larger for immigrants. Among female immigrant program participants, earnings of the male spouse also drop in response … of immigrants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011847217