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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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decades, it is important to know both how migrants integrate into the destination countries and how immigration affects …-contained chapters that contribute to the understanding of the performance of migrants in the host society and the impact of migrants on …. Chapters 4 and 5 cover the effect of immigration on the host societies by showing that growing up in high immigration area …
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This paper investigates the role that pre-immigration skills play in immigrants job-finding processes in Germany. We … empirical evidence by studying the labour-market integration process of Ethnic Germans, one of the largest immigration groups in …
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are also less likely and negative opinions about immigration spillover to supporters of other parties in these areas. On …
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This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...
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employment effect of immigration during the liberalization of migration policies from 2005 to 2018 using a spatial approach. A … effect of immigration in the German labour market. In a further step, we divide our sample into two subsamples to capture the …
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temporary migrants already in the country as sources of permanent immigration. An overview of key results in the literature on … emphasis on their advantages and disadvantages. The recent immigration policies of a number of major immigrant … and international students is discussed, as is and the recent emergence of two-step immigration policies that favor …
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the amount of time since immigration. Recent immigrants have the lowest chance of reporting most of the studied measures …
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We hypothesize that incomplete integration into the workplace and society implies that immigrants are less likely to be union members than natives. Incomplete integration makes the usual mechanism for overcoming the collective action problem less effective. Using data from the Socio-Economic...
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We hypothesize that incomplete integration into the workplace and society implies that immigrants are less likely to be union members than natives. Incomplete integration makes the usual mechanism for overcoming the collective action problem less effective. Using data from the Socio-Economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013383180