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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
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 depend on the type of immigrant and numerous factors. This study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013285855
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The returns to occupational foreign language use : evidence from Germany
Heidland, Tobias - 2013
This paper analyses the wage premia associated with workers' occupational use of foreign languages in Germany. After … fluent English skills are found. Returns to occupational use of other foreign languages are, if anything, restricted to a few … occupations that involve international factor flows. In such occupations it is likely that migrants can apply complementary skills …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010192306
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How do native and migrant workers contribute to innovation? : a study on France, Germany and the UK
Fassio, Claudio; Montobbio, Fabio; Venturini, Alessandra - 2015
This paper uses the French and the UK Labour Force Surveys and the German Microcensus to estimate the effects of … different components of the labour force on innovation at the sectoral level between 1994 and 2005. The authors focus, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528595
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Immigrants and unemployment in the European Community : from the eyes of natives
Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002 - November 1999 (revised: May 2002)
This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the foreigners in specific regions. This paper, instead, utilizes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011313919
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Immigrants and unemployment in the European Community : from the eyes of natives
Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002
This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the foreigners in specific regions. This paper, instead, utilizes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011577317
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The performance of immigrants in the German labor market
Beyer, Robert - 2017
otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for immigrants from advanced countries, with good German language skills … stronger for more recent cohorts. Less success in obtaining jobs with higher occupational autonomy explains half of the wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011598931
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Limits to wage growth : understanding the wage divergence between immigrants and natives
Jain, Apoorva; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2017
effect estimator and the IV method, the study finds that the endogenous post-migration education in the host country … and employment participation. Empirical evidence favors the "efficiency" over the "discrimination" channels of wage …This study finds evidence of wage divergence between immigrants and natives in Germany using a country-wide household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704320
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Reservation wages of first and second generation migrants
Constant, Amelie F.; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - 2010
unknown wage offer distribution and different reference standards, provide theoretical justifications for this conjecture. In … reservation wages may arise. In as far as language skills or self-evaluated returns to characteristics reflect a person's frames …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278738
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Reservation wages of first and second generation migrants
Constant, Amelie F.; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - 2010
unknown wage offer distribution and different reference standards, provide theoretical justifications for this conjecture. In … reservation wages may arise. In as far as language skills or self-evaluated returns to characteristics reflect a person's frames …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285768
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Reservation Wages of First and Second Generation Migrants
Constant, Amelie; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
unknown wage offer distribution and different reference standards, provide theoretical justifications for this conjecture. In … reservation wages may arise. In as far as language skills or self-evaluated returns to characteristics reflect a person's frames …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008765849