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 …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

and their likelihood of being employed in Belgium. 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, but also that their descendants continue to face serious difficulties in accessing the labour market. The employment …

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 …