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English skills and early labour market integration of humanitarian migrants
Cheng, Zhiming; Wang, Ben Zhe; Jiang, Zhou; Taksa, Lucy; … - 2020
We use the panel data from the Building a New Life in Australia survey to examine the relationships between proficiency in English and labour market outcomes among humanitarian migrants. Having better general or speaking skills in English is certainly associated with a higher propensity for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293794
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Skilled migration policy and the labour market performance of immigrants
Tani, Massimiliano - 2017
effective use of migrants' skills provides scope for close coordination between immigration and employment policy to ensure that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785580
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Examining the relationships between labour market mismatches, earnings and job satisfaction among immigrant graduates in Europe
McGuinness, Séamus; Byrne, Delma - 2014
This paper uses graduate survey data and econometric methods to estimate the incidence and wage/job satisfaction effects of over-education and overskilling among immigrants graduating from EU 15 based universities in 2005. Female immigrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403441
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How does immigration affect natives' task-specialisation? : evidence from the United Kingdom
Bisello, Martina - 2014
performance to evaluate whether in the United Kingdom immigration affected the way natives specialise in the task they perform on … responded to immigration inflows of similarly educated workers by increasing their supply of communication tasks, relative to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252154
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English Skills and Early Labour Market Integration of Humanitarian Migrants
Cheng, Zhiming - 2020
We use the panel data from the Building a New Life in Australia survey to examine the relationships between proficiency in English and labour market outcomes among humanitarian migrants. Having better general or speaking skills in English is certainly associated with a higher propensity for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822460
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The impact of migration on productivity and native-born workers' training
Campo, Francesco; Forte, Giuseppe; Portes, Jonathan - 2018
lines suggested by Bianchi, Buonanno and Pinotti (2012). Our results suggest that immigration has a positive and significant … be driven by higher-skilled workers. The results for training are less clear, but suggest that higher-skilled immigration … may have a positive impact on the training of native workers. We discuss the implications for post-Brexit immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011913516
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Do English skills affect Muslim immigrants' economic and social integration differentially?
Yuksel, Mutlu; Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Guven, Cahit - 2019
This paper estimates the returns to English-speaking fluency on the socioeconomic outcomes of childhood immigrants. We further investigate whether Muslim childhood immigrants face additional hurdles in economic and social integration into the host country. Motivated by the critical age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022420
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Do English Skills Affect Muslim Immigrants' Economic and Social Integration Differentially?
Yuksel, Mutlu - 2019
This paper estimates the returns to English-speaking fluency on the socioeconomic outcomes of childhood immigrants. We further investigate whether Muslim childhood immigrants face additional hurdles in economic and social integration into the host country. Motivated by the critical age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868798
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Does over-education raise productivity and wages equally? : the moderating role of workers' origin and immigrants' background
Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022
We provide first evidence of the impact of over-education, among natives and immigrants, on firm-level productivity and wages. We use Belgian linked panel data and rely on the methodology from Hellerstein et al. (1999) to estimate ORU (over-, required, and under-education) equations aggregated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012879761
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Does over-education raise productivity and wages equally? : the moderating role of workers' origin and immigrants' background
Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022
We provide first evidence of the impact of over-education, among natives and immigrants, on firm-level productivity and wages. We use Belgian linked panel data and rely on the methodology from Hellerstein et al. (1999) to estimate ORU (over-, required, and under-education) equations aggregated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012815700