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We empirically assess the relationship between cultural assimilation and subjective well-being of immigrants by using …-economic conditions of the respondents. We find that the more immigrants identify with the German culture and fluently speak the national …
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Most previously used measures of immigrant labor market assimilation will be biased if there is non-random emigration … emigration and its consequences for measures of assimilation. Large fractions of the immigrants leave the host country shortly …. However, not adjusting for emigration leads to overestimating the rate of economic assimilation, for Nordic and OECD …
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whether assimilation or disruption effects dominate immigrants? fertility after migration. We find evidence in favor of the … assimilation model according to which immigrant fertility converges to native levels over time. In addition, we confirm the …
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This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study labor market assimilation of self …
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A history of the New Zealand immigration experience and policy is reviewed in this paper. Data from the 1981 and 1996 New Zealand Censuses are used to illustrate changes in the characteristics of immigrants, as well as labor outcomes. The decline in the income of recent immigrants over the...
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The labor market "quality" of immigrants is a subject of debate among immigration researchers, and a major public policy concern. However, traditional methods of measuring human capital are particularly difficult to apply to recently arrived immigrants. Many factors that have a negative effect...
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This paper explores the relative success of ethnic and immigrant Ukrainians in Canada and in the United States. We found evidence for both a sheepskin and citizenship effects, which partially explains the strong economic performance of Ukrainian immigrants in Canada. Ukrainian immigrants to the...
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immigration from new-EU-12 countries. Second, the lack of employment assimilation in terms of job quality for workers from the new …
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and information valuable in the American labour market. This paper examines the determinants of economic assimilation, and … discusses how the experience of earlier immigrant waves can provide valuable information about the assimilation process the new …
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Over the last several decades, two of the most significant developments in the U.S. labor market have been: (1) rising inequality, and (2) growth in both the size and the diversity of immigration flows. Because a large share of new immigrants arrive with very low levels of schooling, English...
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