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Chinese Immigrants in Vancouver: Quo Vadis?
Guo, Shibao; DeVoretz, Don J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
frequently cited barriers inhibiting their integration into the Vancouver social and economic spheres. Their poor economic … hindered integration and increased dissatisfaction with their lives in Canada. Given the logic of our posited triangular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566700
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The Immigration Triangle: Quebec, Canada and the Rest of the World
DeVoretz, Don J.; Pivnenko, Sergiy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Quebec, as many other immigrant destination areas, has experienced difficulty in retaining its original set of newcomers. The paper addresses this issue of retention in terms of a brain circulation model under which immigrants enter a niche area (Quebec) and receive subsidized human capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703793
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Economic Discrimination and Cultural Differences as Barriers to Migrant Integration: Is Reverse Causality Symmetric?
Kohler, Pierre - International Economics Section, The Graduate Institute … - 2012
This paper examines the endogenous relationship between the economic and cultural integration of migrants in … Switzerland or, more precisely, how economic and cultural barriers to integration reinforce each other. Are cultural differences … preventing the successful integration of migrants or does the root of integration failures lie in unequal economic opportunities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010543532
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How Much Language is Enough? Some Immigrant Language Lessons from Canada and Germany
DeVoretz, Don J.; Hinte, Holger; Werner, Christiane - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Germany and Canada stand at polar ends of the scientific debate over language integration and ascension to citizenship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763685
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TIPping the Scales towards Greater Employment Chances? Evaluation of a Trial Introduction Program (TIP) for Newly-Arrived Immigrants Based on Random Program Assignment
Andersson Joona, Pernilla; Nekby, Lena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
A Trial Introduction Program (TIP) for newly-arrived immigrants to Sweden was implemented from October 2006 to June 2008 in order to meet the main criticisms directed at existing introduction programs. Two primary innovations were introduced, flexible language instruction parallel with other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822603
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TIPping the Scales towards Greater Employment Chances? Evaluation of a Trial Introduction Program (TIP) for Newly-Arrived Immigrants based on Random Program Assignment
Andersson Joona, Pernilla; Nekby, Lena - Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS), … - 2009
A Trial Introduction Program (TIP) for newly-arrived immigrants to Sweden was implemented from October 2006 to June 2008 in order to meet the main criticisms directed at existing introduction programs. Two primary innovations were introduced, flexible language instruction parallel with other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419653
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Immigration: The European Experience
Dustmann, Christian; Frattini, Tommaso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
integration in the different European countries, their position in the wage distribution, and the situation of their children, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416931
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Do Ethnic Enclaves Impede Immigrants' Integration? Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Social-Interaction Approach
Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
concentration on social integration. The exogenous placement of immigrants "switches off" observable and unobservable differences in …-ethnics increases migrants' interaction cost with natives and thus reduces the likelihood of integration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240233
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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 - FIW - 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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008619346
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Immigration: The European Experience
dustmann, christian; Frattini, Tommaso - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012
of the skill structures of immigrants and their labor market integration in the different European countries, their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009391405