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Reservation wages of first and second generation migrants
Constant, Amelie; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - 2010
This paper analyzes the reservation wages of first and second generation migrants. Based on recently collected and rich … reservation wages increase from first to second generation migrants. Two extensions of the basic job search model, namely an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009314273
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Reservation wages of first and second generation migrants
Constant, Amelie; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - 2010
This paper analyzes the reservation wages of first and second generation migrants. Based on recently collected and rich … reservation wages increase from first to second generation migrants. Two extensions of the basic job search model, namely an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009274118
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Reservation Wages of First and Second Generation Migrants
Constant, Amelie F. - 2010
This paper analyzes the reservation wages of first and second generation migrants. Based on recently collected and rich … reservation wages increase from first to second generation migrants. Two extensions of the basic job search model, namely an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134810
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Voluntary brain waste and the reservation wage of migrants : evidence from Austria and three CEE countries
Nowotny, Klaus - 2012 - Preliminary draft
Stylized facts show that migrants more often face overqualified employment than natives. As shown by previous research … employed migrants with tertiary education who immigrated in the 1990s only 21-76% obtained skilled jobs, depending on the … limited transferability of qualifications, or 'voluntary' is, however, unresolved; migrants may be willing to accept a job …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517815
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Real exchange rates and the earnings of immigrants
Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin; Surovtseva, Tetyana - 2023
We relate origin-destination real price differences to immigrants' reservation wages and their career trajectories, exploiting administrative data from Germany and the 2004 enlargement of the European Union. We find that immigrants who enter Germany when a unit of earnings from Germany allows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014334861
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Real exchange rates and the earnings of immigrants
Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin; Surovtseva, Tetyana - 2023
We relate origin-destination real price differences to immigrants' reservation wages and their career trajectories, exploiting administrative data from Germany and the 2004 enlargement of the European Union. We find that immigrants who enter Germany when a unit of earnings from Germany allows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014336387
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Migrants from Ukraine and Belarus living in Sweden before the war
Andersson, Fredrik; Wadensjö, Eskil - 2022
former migrants in Sweden. Do they have work and if so what kind of work? In which parts of Sweden do they live? In this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013415713
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Immigrant performance and selective immigration policy : a European perspective
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2005
The European Union aims at a stronger participation by its population in work to foster growth and welfare. There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labour force, and discussions about the necessary policy responses. Integrated labour and migration policies are needed. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528229
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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 - 2010
This project focuses on comparing the qualification structure of migrants residing in Austria as well as their over … slightly in the last years. Austria is, however, characterised by a high share of medium skilled migrants and a low share of … highly skilled migrants. In addition among the pool of migrants in the EU from a given country, Austria generally selects the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392340
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How skilled immigration may improve economic equality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-13
Mobile workers involve flows of labor and human capital and contribute to a more efficient allocation of resources. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving society. The paper suggests that skilled immigration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010361361