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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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Employment effect of citizenship acquisition : evidence from the Belgian labour market
Bignandi, Sousso; Piton, Céline - 2022
in Belgium. Furthermore, the analysis by type of employment shows that citizenship has a positive effect on migrants …
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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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Immigrant volunteering : a way out of labour market discrimination?
Baert, Stijn; Vujić, Sunčica - 2016
Many governments encourage migrants to participate in volunteer activities as a stepping stone to labour market …-volunteering native candidates receive more than twice as many job interview invitations as non‐volunteering migrants, no unequal … treatment is found between natives and migrants when they reveal volunteer activities. …
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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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Labour Market Outcomes of Second Generation Immigrants : How Heterogeneous are They Really?
Schurer, Stefanie - 2008
The second and third generation of immigrants have been the centre of a lively debate about the economic integration of immigrants into their host societies, but there is little empirical evidence on the German case. In this study I comprehensively portray the labour market outcomes of second...
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Parental background matters : intergenerational mobility and assimilation of Italian immigrants in Germany
Bönke, Timm; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2015
We investigate the hypothesis of failed integration and low social mobility of immigrants. An intergenerational assimilation model is tested empirically on household survey data and validated against administrative data provided us by the Italian Embassy in Germany. Although we confirm...
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The tower of Babel in the classroom : immigrants and natives in Italian schools
Ballatore, Rosario Maria; Fort, Margherita; Ichino, Andrea - 2014
We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). We explain why this is a relevant policy parameter although it has been neglected so far. We show...
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The Tower of Babel in the Classroom : Immigrants and Natives in Italian Schools
Ballatore, Rosario - 2014
We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). We explain why this is a relevant policy parameter although it has been neglected so far. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039573
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Dynamics of employment assimilation
Akay, Alpaslan - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 13, pp. 1-22
This paper investigates the dynamics of immigrants' employment assimilation in comparison with the standard static assimilation model. When the effect of past employment experience on current employment possibilities differs between immigrants and natives, then the static assimilation model...
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