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The performance of immigrants in the German labor market

Beyer, Robert - 2017

This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...

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Pay and unemployment determinants of migration flows in the European Union

Afonso, António; Alves, José; Beck, Krzysztof - 2022

We analyze the migration drivers within the European Union countries. For a set of 23 EU countries over the 1995-2019 period, we use Bayesian Model Averaging and quantile regression to assess notably the relevance of unemployment and earnings. We find that the existence of a common border...

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Young FSU migrants in Germany : educational attainment and early labor market outcomes

Flake, Regina - 2013

Sowjetunion, die zwischen 1989 und 1994 nach Deutschland eingewandert sind. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Migranten einen geringeren …Diese Studie analysiert den Bildungserfolg und die Arbeitsmarktintegration von jungen Migranten aus der ehemaligen … Bildungserfolg als Einheimische haben. Innerhalb der Gruppe der Migranten aus der ehemaligen Sowjetunion sind jüdische Migranten …

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Immigration und Arbeitsmarkt : eine ökonomische Perspektive

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998

Based on the current European discussion about immigration policy, this paper gives an overview of central economic consequences of immigration for a host country's labor market. The most important theoretical arguments are presented and evaluated against the available empirical evidence. The...

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Do labour market conditions shape immigrant-native gaps in employment outcomes? : a comparison of 19 European countries

Markaki, Yvonni - 2014

This article draws from different theoretical and empirical literatures to analyse the role of socioeconomic and regulatory conditions on immigrant-native gaps across four outcomes; unemployment, monthly earnings, underemployment, and precarious contracts. The empirical results suggest that...

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What active labour market programmes work for immigrants in Europe? : A meta-analysis of the evaluation literature

Butschek, Sebastian; Walter, Thomas - 2013

A growing body of programme evaluation literature recognises immigrants as a disadvantaged group on European labour markets and investigates the employment effects of Active Labour Market Pro-grammes (ALMPs) on this subgroup. Using a meta-analysis, we condense 93 estimates from 33 empir-ical...

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What active labour market programmes work for immigrants in Europe? : conference paper

Butschek, Sebastian; Walter, Thomas - 2013 - This version: February 13, 2013

In this paper, we provide a quantitative answer to the question what types of active labour market programmes (ALMPs) work for immigrants. From the existing literature, we identify 24 research papers estimating 79 short-run treatment effects of ALMPs on immigrants. We perform a meta-analysis of...

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Are immigrants competing with natives in the Italian labour market? : the employment effect

Venturini, Alessandra; Villosio, Claudia - 2002

Gavosto, Venturini, Villosio (1999) find that the impact of foreign workers on the wage of natives was positive. Such a result was partly to be expected, and therefore the effect of immigrants on native employment is analyzed here. Two aspects of the unemployment experience are taken into...

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The share of foreigners in one's occupation and attitudes towards foreigners

Pecoraro, Marco; Ruedin, Didier - 2017

This paper examines the relationship between attitudes towards foreigners and the share of foreigners at the occupational level. Using a question on equal opportunities for foreigners from the Swiss House-hold Panel, ordered probit regressions with standard controls show that: (a) there is a...

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Ability drain : size, impact, and comparison with brain drain under alternative immigration policies

Schiff, Maurice W. - 2017

Ability drain's (AD) impact seems economically significant, with 30% of US Nobel laureates since 1906 being immigrants, and immigrants or their children founding 40% of Fortune 500 companies. Nonetheless, while brain drain (BD) and gain (BG) have been studied extensively, AD has not. I examine...

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