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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 enclaves divorced from the host country labor market, and considers public …
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This study provides an account of the dynamics of the dominant language adjustment process among immigrants in … category, educational attainment and age at migration impact on immigrant?s language skills. The increased English Proficiency … language proficiency of these immigrants. …
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use in Australia is much higher than in most of the countries that Australia's immigrants come from, this evidence … capital skills shows that educational attainment and destination language skills are complements to computer use. The use of a …
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This study finds evidence of wage divergence between immigrants and natives in Germany using a country-wide household … immigrants and natives. Individual rates of wage convergence are found to be higher for immigrants who fled warfare zones, belong … contributes substantially to closing the wage gap with natives. The treatment effect is heterogeneous, favoring immigrants who are …
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migrants who arrive through family reunification are less likely to work full-time; refugees are also less self-employed. Those …There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This … host country (worker, refugee, and family reunification), ethnic networks, enclaves and other differences among ethnicities …
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effect of concentrations on the immigrant?s language skills, as well as the effects on immigrant earnings of destination … language skills. Moreover, immigrant?s earnings are lower the lower their English-language proficiency and the greater the …This paper is concerned with the determinants and consequences of immigrant/linguistic concentrations (enclaves). The …
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migrants who arrive through family reunification are less likely to work full-time; refugees are also less self-employed. Those …There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This … host country (worker, refugee, and family reunification), ethnic networks, enclaves and other differences among ethnicities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272278
This paper is an analysis of the determinates of Hebrew language speaking and writing skills and the determinates of … earnings among adult male Jewish immigrants in Israel, using the 1972 Census of Israel. Among other findings, Hebrew speaking … migration and if many others in the area in which the respondent lives speak the same origin language. Country of origin and …
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This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic … components of ethnicity -country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion - among persons admitted to legal permanent …) Language is shed before religion, and religion may not be shed at all, except among the ultra highly skilled of EB-1. (4 …
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linguistic enclaves, (2) the determinants of destination language proficiency among international migrants, based on a model (the … international (and internal) migrants, both in terms of the ease of obtaining proficiency in the destination language and access to … destination language skills, and Economic incentives for acquiring this proficiency, (3) the consequences for immigrants of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329183