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across countries in the entry wage gap and the speed of wage assimilation over time. Wage assimilation is affected by year of … entry, immigrant skill, ethnicity, and gender. Policies that facilitate assimilation of immigrant workers provide support …
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The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many - if not most - migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...
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This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to analyze the labor market experience of high-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high-skilled occupations than natives, but the gap between the two...
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A history of the New Zealand immigration experience and policy is reviewed in this paper. Data from the 1981 and 1996 …
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. Unskilled immigrants who arrive in the USA as children and adolescents experience substantial wage assimilation, especially …-Americans. The immigration process selects black immigrants who have or who would have achieved middle income or higher status in …, black immigrants do not obtain wage assimilation equal to native-born non-Hispanic white male workers. …
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local workers and migrants can invest effort in assimilation activities in order to increase the assimilation of the … size (in the firm) of each group and the cost of activities, has on the assimilation process of the migrants. …
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This paper reviews and analyzes the effects of Canada's post World War II immigration policies with the perspective of … what European policy makers can learn from this experience. Impact of Immigration on natives' employment and earnings, as …
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during 1990 - 2002. I use this natural experiment to study labor market assimilation of migrants and their effect on the … female immigrants faced significant wage and employment gaps upon arrival, and their assimilation was slow. Using an IV …
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fill this gap by studying the size and assimilation patterns of EaP migrants in Germany. Most EaP migrants in Germany come …
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Previous research on internal mobility has neglected the role of local identity contrary to studies analyzing … international migration. Examining social identity and labor market outcomes in China, the country with the largest internal … largely unchanged. Migrants with strong local identity are more likely to use local networks in job search, and to obtain jobs …
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