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Moving up the social ladder? : wages of first- and second-generation immigrants from developing countries
Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022
As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working-age population in the developed world, their labour market integration constitutes a key factor for fostering economic development and social cohesion. Using a granular, matched...
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Moving up the social ladder? : wages of first- and second-generation immigrants from developing countries
Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022
As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working-age population in the developed world, their labour market integration constitutes a key factor for fostering economic development and social cohesion. Using a granular, matched...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470617
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Birthright citizenship and parental labor market integration
Sajons, Christoph - 2016
with those of children of mixed couples (migrants and Germans) who were unaffected by the law change. The analysis of data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011558247
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Ethnic identity and work
Constant, Amelie - 2014
Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418958
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Different Selection Processes, Different Outcomes? Comparing Labour Market Integration of Asylum Seekers, Resettled Refugees and Their Reunited Family Members in Finland
Tervola, Jussi - 2019
males, family reunion migrants integrate faster than asylum seekers and resettled refugees. However, among females …, resettled refugees integrate the fastest whereas family reunion migrants demonstrate the slowest integration. The overall small …
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Scared straight? : threat and assimilation of refugees in Germany
Jaschke, Philipp; Sardoschau, Sulin; Tabellini, Marco - 2021
This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and on economic assimilation of refugees, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in their allocation across German regions between 2013 and 2016. We combine novel survey data on cultural preferences and economic outcomes...
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The labor market integration of refugees and other migrants in Germany
Bedaso, Fenet Jima - 2021
Germany. The existing evidence shows that the economic outcomes of migrants are far behind natives. However, immigrants are a … refugees and other migrants and compare the employment probability gap between refugees, other migrants, and natives. I also … examine whether refugees have a lower employment outcome than other migrants and to what extent the level of education …
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Skill downgrading among refugees and economic immigrants in Germany : evidence from the Syrian refugee crisis
Nikolov, Plamen; Salarpour Goodarzi, Leila; Titus, David - 2022
Upon arrival to a new country, many immigrants face job downgrading, a phenomenon describing workers being in jobs far below where they would be assigned based on their skills. Downgrading leads to immigrants receiving lower returns to the same skills than natives. The level of downgrading could...
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Identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants
Carillo, Maria R.; Lombardo, Vincenzo; Venittelli, Tiziana - 2021
from Italy, we provide robust evidence that immigrants with stronger feelings of belonging to the societies of both the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012392708
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Ethnic identity and immigrants' labour market outcomes
Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Cheng, Zhiming; … - 2021
The objective of this paper is to analyse how immigrants' ethnic identity correlates with their labour market outcomes. More precisely, we estimate the role of ethnic identity in employment, wages, under-employment (i.e., they would prefer to work more hours but are not given the opportunity),...
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