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This paper explores the issue of discrimination against Asian migrants in the Australian labour market using a unique … panel data set, the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia (LSIA). This paper estimates models of the probability of … significant “unexplained differences” for males that may be ascribed to “discrimination” against Asian migrants. However, the …
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-generation immigrants and 4 % is Hispanic. Intergenerational improvement is an important source of wage convergence of black immigrants …. Unskilled immigrants who arrive in the USA as children and adolescents experience substantial wage assimilation, especially … Caribbean-English and African-English immigrants. But both unskilled immigrants arriving as adults and all skilled immigrants …
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An influential recent literature argues that women are less likely to initiate bargaining with their employers and are (often) less effective negotiators than men. We use longitudinal wage data from Portugal, matched to balance sheet information on employers, to measure the relative bargaining...
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worries. While individuals are strongly pulled into selfemployment if it offers higher earnings, immigrants are additionally … pushed into selfemployment when they feel discriminated. Married immigrants are more likely to go into selfemployment, but … less likely when they have young children. Immigrants living with foreign passports in ethnic households are more likely …
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This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to … immigrants, Turks are twice as likely to choose self-employment as any other immigrant group. The age-earnings profiles of self … the self-employed Greeks, Italians, Spaniards, ex- Yugoslavs, Polish or other East Europeans, including those immigrants …
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Since ethnic clustering is common in Germany, a better understanding of its effects on the integration of immigrants … is benefi cial or detrimental for immigrants’ integration. In this paper, the effect of residential clustering on the … labour market outcome of first-generation immigrants in Germany is analysed empirically. It, thus, contributes to the …
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-generation immigrants and 4 % is Hispanic. Intergenerational improvement is an important source of wage convergence of black immigrants …. Unskilled immigrants who arrive in the USA as children and adolescents experience substantial wage assimilation, especially … Caribbean-English and African-English immigrants. But both unskilled immigrants arriving as adults and all skilled immigrants …
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labour mobility, labour deprivation due to long-term unemployment, skill mismatch and emerging signs of inflexibility in wage … in more detail labour flexibility, namely labour market flows, long-term unemployment and labour force deprivation. The … third part addresses wage flexibility and relative wages, with special attention paid to regional unemployment elasticity of …
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We argue that the arrival of immigrants with low reservation wages can strengthen the monopsony power of firms. Firms …
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Germany has a large persistent Gender Pay Gap of 21%; although this gap is not constant across occupations. The question arises why some occupations have large Gender Pay Gaps while others have only small gaps. Using data from the Structural Earnings Study merged with occupational task...
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