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employment rate of the respective immigrant group in the vicinity (as a measure of enclave quality) facilitates labor market …
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employment rate of the respective immigrant group in the vicinity (as a measure of enclave quality) facilitates labour market …
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2008 recession on the health of immigrant newborns in Italy. Health at birth (e.g., low birth weight) of immigrants … through more registered immigrant associations. The characteristics of ethnic groups and their organization at the municipal …
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We investigate whether immigrant and minority workers’ poor access to high-wage jobs – that is, glass ceilings – is … find that glass ceilings exist for some immigrant groups, and that they are driven in large measure by glass doors. For … some immigrant groups, the sorting of these workers across firms accounts for as much as half of the economy-wide wage …
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The impact of living in an ethnic enclave on earnings growth of immigrants in Canada is examined using the 1981-2001 Censuses. Consistent with U.S. findings, enclaves are found to have a negative impact on the earnings growth of male immigrants. A negative impact is also found for female...
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Studies in the US have shown that black immigrants have remained at the bottom of the wage ladder and that other groups of immigrants have overtaken them over time. The goal of this research is to determine whether a specific group of immigrants can displace a group at the bottom of the ladder....
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Studies in the US have shown that black immigrants have remained at the bottom of the wage ladder and that other groups of immigrants have overtaken them over time. The goal of this research is to determine whether a specific group of immigrants can displace a group at the bottom of the ladder....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009613733
unique representative German survey, we find that adaptation to the host country closes the existing immigrant-native gap in …
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In this paper, we analyze immigrant wage gaps and propose an extension of the traditional wage decomposition technique …, which is a synthesis from two strains of literature on ethnic/immigrant wage differences, namely the "assimilation … literature" and the "discrimination literature". We estimate separate wage equations for natives and a number of immigrant groups …
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, a finding that has implications for immigrant settlement policies. -- computers ; internet ; immigrants ; language …
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