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The returns to school-quality-adjusted education of immigrants in Germany
Quang, Huy Le; Vallizadeh, Ehsan - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 56 (2022) 1, pp. 1-15
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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Educational Assimilation of First-Generation and Second-Generation Immigrants in Germany
Gries, Thomas; Redlin, Margarete; Zehra, Moonum - In: Journal of International Migration and Integration 23 (2021) 2, pp. 815-845
qualifications. This gap is strongly driven by age at immigration, with immigration age and education revealing a nonlinear …
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Will you intermarry me? : determinants and consequences of immigrant-native intermarriage in contemporary Nordic settings
Elwert, Annika - 2018
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Un estudio cuantitativo de la migración en la frontera sur de México-Guatemala
Santiago, Agustín; Sautto, José M.; Bouza, Carlos; … - In: Atlantic Review of Economics 2 (2014), pp. 1-35
Migration movements in the south border of México with Guatemala, has motivated serious social, economic and politic un-stability in both countries. During the last decades of the XX-th century, the sites of the south zone have become in zones with high violence indexes, delinquency and...
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The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants: A survey of the literature for receiving countries
Nathan, Max - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014), pp. 1-20
In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call "the...
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Immigrant influx and social cohesion erosion
Neymotin, Florence - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014), pp. 1-29
If immigration causes a decrease in social cohesion, then it may also be an important contributing factor in the recent … failure of financial institutions. The present analysis finds some evidence for a negative relationship between immigration … counterpoint, lending support to the alternative idea that immigration does not in fact decrease social cohesion. …
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Earnings differentials between immigrants and natives: The role of occupational attainment
Aringa, Carlo Dell; Lucifora, Claudio; Pagani, Laura - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-18
natives and that there is no return to pre-immigration work experience, suggesting imperfect transferability of human capital …
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Immigrants and gender roles: Assimilation vs. culture
Blau, Francine - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-21
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women's behavior in the United States-looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply...
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The cost of immigrants' occupational mismatch and the effectiveness of postarrival policies in Canada
Aydede, Yigit; Dar, Atul - In: IZA Journal of Migration 5 (2016) 9, pp. 1-23
Using the 2006 Census, we create a continuous index that quantifies the relatedness between 1375 fields of study and 520 occupations for native-born workers and use it as the benchmark reflecting the "common" matching quality in Canadian labor markets that internationally educated immigrant...
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Mexican immigration, occupational clustering, and the local labor market adjustment of African-American workers
Toussaint-Comeau, Maude - In: IZA Journal of Migration 5 (2016) 14, pp. 1-31
questioned whether unfavorable trends in African-American wages and employment outcomes are tied to Mexican immigration. This … source of depression of wages for African-Americans stems not just from immigration. In fact, in some ways, occupation … clustering and specialization of Mexican immigrants mitigates impact of immigration on African-Americans on a whole range of low …
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