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qualifications. This gap is strongly driven by age at immigration, with immigration age and education revealing a nonlinear …
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This paper explores the role of school quality in immigrants' home countries on their earnings in Germany, using native Germans as a benchmark. We propose an empirical analysis that highlights two important insights. First, there is a substantial gap in the returns to education between natives...
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decades, it is important to know both how migrants integrate into the host countries and how immigration affects natives …-based tracking of children into different school types impede migrant integration. Chapters 4 and 5 cover the effect of immigration … on the host societies by showing that growing up in high immigration area increases intergenerational income mobility …
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employment effect of immigration during the liberalization of migration policies from 2005 to 2018 using a regional approach. A … unique and first-hand-collected data for 156 statistical regions based on the definition of the German Federal Employment … employment rate, and this negative effect is substantially larger than those reported in previous studies on the employment …
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employment. It focuses on clients who receive means-tested basic income for the unemployed, based on data from the Panel Study … the amount of time since immigration. Recent immigrants have the lowest chance of reporting most of the studied measures …
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This study provides new evidence on the levels of economic integration experienced by foreigners and naturalised immigrants relative to native Germans from 1994 to 2015. We decompose the wage gap using the method for unconditional quantile regression models by employing a regression of the...
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This paper examines the effect of immigration on workplace safety, an understudied outcome in the literature. We use a … prevented shifts between occupations. Finally, we find no effects of immigration on the workplace safety of immigrants. These … results add a previously unexplored dimension to the immigration debate that should be taken into account when evaluating the …
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The theory of factor demand has important implications for the study of the impact of immigration on wages. This paper … theory can be used to check the plausibility of the many contradictory claims that appear throughout the immigration …
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We assess the differences in downward nominal and real wage rigidity between natives and immigrants in Portugal, using a matched employer-employee database and the International Wage Flexibility Project (IWFP) methodology. This methodology estimates a notional or counterfactual distribution that...
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