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Providing equal opportunities to all members of society independent of an individual's socioeconomic background is a major objective of German policy makers. However, evidence on the access to education suggests that opportunities of children with a non-academic family background are still...
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Chapter 1. Introduction: Revisiting Networks: setting the conceptual and methodological scene -- Chapter 2. The direct and indirect role of migrants’ networks in accessing diverse labour market sectors: an analysis of the weak/ strong ties continuum -- Chapter 3. Are “weak ties” really...
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in Germany and the Netherlands, producing an important data comparison for those two bordering countries. … -- Conclusion -- 3 Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands -- Introduction -- Migration history and background of the ethnic … groups -- Immigration regime and integration policy -- The labour market -- Social capital in Germany and the Netherlands …
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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 incorporates job search through personal contacts into an equilibrium matching model with a segregated labour market. Job search in the public submarket is competitive which is in contrast with the bargaining nature of wages in the informal job market. Moreover, the social capital of...
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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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