immigration on business dynamics and employment by combining U.S. data on immigrant inflows from the Current Population Survey …Immigration, like any positive labor supply shock, should increase the return to capital and spur business investment … immigrant inflows. Despite this clear prediction, there is sparse empirical evidence on the effect of immigration on business …

integration programmes, family policies and career and diversity plans, the native-migrant employment gap in Belgium is still one … investigates how the motive for migrating to Belgium contributes to the native-migrant employment gap. Based on data from the 2014 … employment outcomes of labour migrants (with and without a job prior to migration), family reunion migrants, student migrants and …

in Belgium. Furthermore, the analysis by type of employment shows that citizenship has a positive effect on migrants …This paper investigates whether citizenship acquisition affects immigrants' employment in Belgium. To do so, we rely on … acquisition increases immigrants' employment by 7 percentage points after naturalisation. This effect persists even after …

employment history of the workforce of new and disappearing administrative firm identifiers, we can accurately identify <I … of new firms entering the Belgian economy between 2004 and 2011, we find highly regular post-entry employment dynamics in … employment growth that is monotonically decreasing with age in every size class. Most remarkably, we find that Gibrat's law is …

This paper examines the relationship between business dynamics (entry and exit of firms) and employment growth at the … levels are too high in certain industries. We find positive employment effects of net-entry rates, both for manufacturing …

This paper provides a comprehensive quantitative assessment of the employment performance of first- and second …-generation immigrants in Belgium compared to that of natives. Using detailed quarterly data for the period 2008-2014, we find not only that … first-generation immigrants face a substantial employment penalty (up to -36% points) vis-à-vis their native counterparts …

integration programmes, family policies and career and diversity plans, the native-migrant employment gap in Belgium is still one … investigates how the motive for migrating to Belgium contributes to the native-migrant employment gap.Based on data from the 2014 … employment outcomes of labour migrants (with and without a job prior to migration), family reunion migrants, student migrants and …

This paper examines the labor market trajectories of refugees who arrived in Belgium between 2003 and 2009. Belgium has … history models to compare refugees' entry into and exit out of the first employment, contrasting their outcomes with family … and labor migrants of the same arrival cohort. The analysis shows that refugees take significantly longer to enter their …

Survey (LFS) we find that employment rates for generation migrants in Belgium are hardly better than those for first …Belgium has one of the largest gaps in labour market outcomes between natives and individuals of foreign origin. One … might expect that the children of migrants (the so-called second generation) would perform better than the first generation …