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Ethnische Vielfalt und Arbeitsmarkterfolg
Rinne, Ulf; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010
Das ökonomische Potenzial ethnischer und kultureller Vielfalt wird häufig verkannt. Die Ergebnisse neuerer Studien, die in diesem Beitrag zusammengefasst werden, zeigen jedoch, dass sich weiche Faktoren wie etwa Einstellungen, Wahrnehmungen und Identitäten, hier insbesondere ethnische...
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Qualification Structure, Over- and Underqualification of the Foreign Born in Austria and the EU
Huber, Peter; Nowotny, Klaus; Bock-Schappelwein, Julia - 2010
This project focuses on comparing the qualification structure of migrants residing in Austria as well as their over- and underqualification rates to other EU countries. The skill structure of foreign born residing in Austria has improved slightly in the last years. Austria is, however,...
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Settlement and migration patterns among immigrants in Norway
Stambøl, Lasse Sigbjørn - 2014
-enlargements. The aim of the paper is to investigate the regional settlement and migration patterns of immigrants mostly recognized by … persistent pattern of domestic migration towards central regions for this group. Children of immigrants born in Norway, education … and their families show strong and positive relationship between domestic migration and regional employment change due to …
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Migration, Risk Attitudes, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - 2013
Do more risk loving migrants opt for self-employment? This is a question especially relevant for policymakers designing selective immigration policies in countries of destination. In order to provide a rigorous answer to it, we use a novel vignette-adjusted measure of risk preferences in the...
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Migrant Networks and the Spread of Misinformation
Elsner, Benjamin; Narciso, Gaia; Thijssen, Jacco J. J. - 2013
in the host country. While the existing literature explains the effect of networks on migration decisions through the … migration. Yet we find no evidence that the quality of the network affects the timing of migration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329158
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The Mobility Challenge for Growth and Integration in Europe
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013
value of labor mobility for economic prosperity and its determinants. Labor migration and not welfare migration dominates … the future a much higher level of circular and permanent migration. …
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Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance? Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - 2014
Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the literature, the question of identifying this relationship empirically has only begun to be explored. Using a unique representative survey of 1500 immigrants in the Greater Dublin...
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How skilled immigration may improve economic equality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014), pp. 1-13
. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving …
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Migration, risk attitudes, and entrepreneurship: Evidence from a representative immigrant survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014), pp. 1-25
Do more risk loving migrants opt for self-employment? We use a novel vignette-adjusted measure of risk preferences to investigate the link between risk aversion and entrepreneurship in migrant communities. Using an original representative household survey of the migrant population in the Greater...
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The performance of immigrants in the German labor market
Beyer, Robert - 2016
This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...
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