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Self-employment and earnings among high-skilled immigrants in the United States
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2000
This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to analyze the labor market experience of high-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high-skilled occupations than natives, but the gap between the two...
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Immigration : the New Zealand experience
Winkelmann, Rainer - 1999
A history of the New Zealand immigration experience and policy is reviewed in this paper. Data from the 1981 and 1996 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011313950
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Labor market assimilation and the self-employment decision of immigrant entrepreneurs
Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999
This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study labor market assimilation of self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011313956
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Fertility assimilation of immigrants : evidence from count data models
Mayer, Jochen; Riphahn, Regina T. - 1999
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011313957
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Immigrant assimilation and welfare participation : do immigrants assimilate into or out-of welfare
Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999
data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased in Sweden in the 1990's …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318604
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Transferability of human capital and immigrant assimilation : an analysis for Germany
Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K.; Kramer, Anica - 2014
This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and in particular labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010380588
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Transferability of human capital and immigrant assimilation : an analysis for Germany ; conference paper
Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K.; Kramer, Anica - 2013
This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338940
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Estimating immigrant earnings profiles when migrations are temporary
Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2016
The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many - if not most - migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...
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Wage assimilation of immigrants : which factors close the gap? - evidence from Germany
Lehmer, Florian; Ludsteck, Johannes - 2012
and 2000 show significant differences in the assimilation processes between nationalities. We examine the sources of wage … assimilation for migrants in Germany by estimating fixed effects regressions for migrants and Germans separately. Based on the … percent in 2008. According to the decomposition results this wage assimilation of 10 percentage points can almost completely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517958
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Immigrant-native gap in risk and time preferences in Germany : levels, socio-economic determinants, and recent changes
Deole, Sumit S.; Rieger, Marc Oliver - 2022
most preferred host countries for immigration. Using the recent waves of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) dataset, we find … that the immigrant-native gap in risk preferences has widened for recent immigration cohorts, especially around the 2015 … European Refugee Crisis. We attribute the recent widening to decreased assimilation rates of new immigrants caused by a reduced …
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