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effect of social capital on migrants' employment outcomes and wages, especially for women. Distinguishing employment into … results suggest that promoting opportunities to create social capital has a beneficial effect on migrants' integration in the …
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Labor market integration raises welfare in the absence of distortions. This paper examines labor and goods market integration in a general equilibrium model with social capital. The findings are: i) labor market integration has an ambiguous impact on welfare, and raises it if the goods produced...
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This paper assesses the extent to which social contacts and ethnic concentration affect the education-occupation mismatch of natives and immigrants. Using Australian panel data and employing a dynamic random effects probit model, we show that social capital exacerbates the incidence of...
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labour market continues to raise concerns. Evidence across countries shows that migrants are more often over-educated than … natives. Over the last years, scholarship has intended to capture the effect of informal networks on migrants’ over …-occupation mismatch is well documented. This article has two objectives: it assesses the extent to which over-education affects migrants …
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question. This comparative exploratory study of Chinese and Nigerian entrepreneurial migrants in Ghana and Benin provides … the innovative culture of Chinese entrepreneurial migrants versus that of African entrepreneurial migrants. Rather, there … Migranten als Triebkräfte des Wandels nicht auf tradierte Wertesysteme oder Religionen wie die protestantische Ethik oder den …
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This chapter investigates the integration processes of immigrants in Germany by comparing certain immigrant groups to natives differentiating by gender and immigrant generation. Indicators which are supposed to capture cultural integration of immigrants are differences in marital behavior as...
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Co-ethnic employment refers to the stylised fact of many labour markets that there is an over-representation of workers … constitute the major reasons for co-ethnic employment by lowering information and co-ordination costs. In the short run, co …-ethnic employment leads to more jobs for employees, easy access to labour for ethnic minority firms, strengthening of the group values …
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immigrants' labour force participation rate and employment probability. For recent immigrants who arrived in Canada within the … positively related to their employment probability in all censuses. However, living in an enclave has no significant effect on …
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