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Are Ethnic Minorities More Likely to Emigrate? Evidence from Latvia
Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2008
Drawing on survey data on emigration intentions in Latvia, this paper studies emigration intentions of minorities. The … paper shows, that after controlling for other factors, the probability of emigration of a Russian minority individual is … higher probability of emigration. These findings can be explained by linguistic and citizenship policies disadvantaging …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012724883
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Identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants
Carillo, Maria R.; Lombardo, Vincenzo; Venittelli, Tiziana - 2021
This paper explores the relationship between social identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants. Using survey data from Italy, we provide robust evidence that immigrants with stronger feelings of belonging to the societies of both the host and home country have higher employment rates,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012392708
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Identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants
Carillo, Maria R.; Lombardo, Vincenzo; Venittelli, Tiziana - 2021
This paper explores the relationship between social identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants. Using survey data from Italy, we provide robust evidence that immigrants with stronger feelings of belonging to the societies of both the host and home country have higher employment rates,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497035
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Naturalization proclivities, ethnicity and integration
Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008
differentiating between actual and planned citizenship. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel, we measure the impact that integration …, but not to those educated in Germany. We find that the degree of integration in German society has a differential effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631580
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The impacts of COVID-19 on minority unemployment : first evidence from April 2020 CPS microdata
Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Xu, Huanan - 2020
COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months after state governments began adopting social distancing measures. Unemployment of this magnitude has not been seen since the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012223833
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Getting the first job : size and quality of ethnic enclaves for refugee labor market entry
Klaesson, Johan; Öner, Özge; Pennerstorfer, Dieter - 2019
integration. Using exogenously defined grid cells to delineate neighborhoods, we find robust empirical evidence that the … integration of new immigrants. The influence of the overall employment rate and the share of co-nationals in the neighborhood tend …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011987902
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Getting the first job : size and quality of ethnic enclaves for refugee labor market entry
Klaesson, Johan; Öner, Özge; Pennerstorfer, Dieter - 2018
integration. Using exogenously defined grid cells to delineate neighbourhoods we find robust empirical evidence that the … integration of new immigrants. The influence of the overall employment rate and the share of co-nationals in the neighbourhood …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943439
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Birth in hard times when you belong to minorities
Bertoli, Paola; Grembi, Veronica; Nguyen, The Linh Bao - 2020
Combining a unique dataset of birth records with municipal-level real estate information, we assess the impact of the 2008 recession on the health of immigrant newborns in Italy. Health at birth (e.g., low birth weight) of immigrants deteriorated more than health at birth of Italians. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389435
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Does Combat Experience Foster Organizational Skill? Evidence from Ethnic Cleansing During the Partition of South Asia
Jha, Saumitra - 2013
Can combat experience foster organizational skills that engender political collective action? We use the arbitrary assignment of troops to combat in World War II to identify the effect of combat experience on two channels that change local ethnic composition and future political control: ethnic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013093972
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Ethnicity and the immigration of highly skilled workers to the United States
Jasso, Guillermina (contributor) - 2009
This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic components of ethnicity -country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion - among persons admitted to legal permanent residence in the United States in 2003 in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003796343