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Oppositional identities and employment for ethnic minorities : evidence from England
Battu, Harminder; Zenou, Yves - 2009
that the social environment of individuals and attachments to culture of origin has a strong association with identity … experience an employment penalty. -- Ethnic minorities ; identity ; social networks ; white's norm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003904968
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Oppositional Identities and Employment for Ethnic Minorities : Evidence from England
Battu, Harminder - 2009
that the social environment of individuals and attachments to culture of origin has a strong association with identity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154999
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Ethnic identity and work
Constant, Amelie - 2014
remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic … identity is a major issue; even more challenging is to measure its impact on economic outcomes such as the probability to work … or the earnings of immigrants. The thin but burgeoning theoretical and empirical literature shows that ethnic identity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418958
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Native-immigrant gaps in educational and school-to-work transitions in the second generation : the role of gender and ethnicity
Baert, Stijn; Heiland, Frank; Korenman, Sanders - 2014
We study how native-immigrant (second generation) differences in educational trajectories and school-to-work transitions vary by gender. Using longitudinal Belgian data and adjusting for family background and educational sorting, we find that both male and female second-generation immigrants,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010463408
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Ethnic employment gaps of graduates in the Netherlands
Bisschop, Paul; Weel, Bas ter; Zwetsloot, Jelle - 2020
This research documents ethnic employment gaps for labour-market entrants in the Netherlands in the period 2006-2016. We compare short-term and long-term differences in employment of Dutch graduates with graduates from Moroccan, Turkish, Antillean and Surinamese origin and other (non-)western...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012295193
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Ethnic employment gaps of graduates in the Netherlands
Bisschop, Paul; Weel, Bas ter; Zwetsloot, Jelle - 2020
This research documents ethnic employment gaps for labour-market entrants in the Netherlands in the period 2006-2016. We compare short-term and long-term differences in employment of Dutch graduates with graduates from Moroccan, Turkish, Antillean and Surinamese origin and other (non-)western...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012427686
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Labour market disadvantage of ethnic minority British graduates : university choice, parental background or neighbourhood?
Zwysen, Wouter; Longhi, Simonetta - 2016
We compare school-to-work transitions of British graduates belonging to ethnic minorities to those of white British. Six months after graduation ethnic minorities are substantially less likely to be employed than white British even after accounting for parental background, local area...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434159
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Scared straight? : threat and assimilation of refugees in Germany
Jaschke, Philipp; Sardoschau, Sulin; Tabellini, Marco - 2021
This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and on economic assimilation of refugees, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in their allocation across German regions between 2013 and 2016. We combine novel survey data on cultural preferences and economic outcomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012801401
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A policy agenda for diversity and minority integration
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010
The social and labor market integration of ethnic minorities in the EU is still a major political, societal and economic challenge. Based on evidence presented in Kahanec and Zimmermann (2011), this policy paper proposes an agenda for diversity and minority integration in the European labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008841907
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Pitfalls of immigrant inclusion into the European welfare state
Kahanec, Martin; Kim, Anna Myunghee; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011
This paper's main purpose is to gauge immigrants' demand for social assistance and services and identify the key barriers to social and labor market inclusion of immigrants in the European Union. The data from an online primary survey of experts from organizations working on immigrant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009529276