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Microeconometric analyses on economic consequences of selective migration
Ruhose, Jens - 2015
selection and the importance of migrant selection to labor force quality. Chapter 2 quantifies non-pecuniary migration costs … that are incurred due to selective migration along cultural traits. Chapter 3 discusses whether early performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300396
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Immigration, cultural distance and natives' attitudes towards immigrants : evidence from Swiss voting results
Brunner, Beatrice; Kuhn, Andreas - 2014
We combine community-level outcomes of 27 votes about immigration issues in Switzerland with census data to estimate the effect of immigration on natives' attitudes towards immigration. We apply an instrumental variable approach to take potentially endogenous locational choices into account, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398737
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Immigration, Cultural Distance and Natives' Attitudes Towards Immigrants : Evidence from Swiss Voting Results
Brunner, Beatrice - 2014
We combine community-level outcomes of 27 votes about immigration issues in Switzerland with census data to estimate the effect of immigration on natives' attitudes towards immigration. We apply an instrumental variable approach to take potentially endogenous locational choices into account, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047862
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Microeconometric analyses on economic consequences of selective migration
Ruhose, Jens - 2015
. Chapter 2 quantifies non-pecuniary migration costs that are incurred due to selective migration along cultural traits. Chapter … Determinanten selektiver Migration beschäftigen sowie die Wichtigkeit selektiver Migration für die Zusammensetzung der arbeitenden …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742892
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Settlement and migration patterns among immigrants in Norway
Stambøl, Lasse Sigbjørn - 2014
-enlargements. The aim of the paper is to investigate the regional settlement and migration patterns of immigrants mostly recognized by … persistent pattern of domestic migration towards central regions for this group. Children of immigrants born in Norway, education … and their families show strong and positive relationship between domestic migration and regional employment change due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400124
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How skilled immigration may improve economic equality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-13
. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010361361
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Immigration and crime : new empirical evidence from European victimization data
Nunziata, Luca - 2014
We exploit the increase in immigration flows into western European countries that took place in the 2000s to assess whether immigration affects crime victimization and the perception of criminality among European natives. Using data from the European Social Survey, the Labour Force Survey and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434459
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The performance of immigrants in the German labor market
Beyer, Robert - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011598931
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A sustainable immigration policy for the EU
Ritzen, Jozef M. M.; Kahanec, Martin - 2017
A sustainable EU Immigration Policy aims to contribute to a vibrant European society through more effectively and selectively managed immigration from outside the EU, more attention to integration of immigrants, more rooting out of discrimination, more asylum centres close to areas of conflict,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011637960
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Labour Market Matters - June 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
existing jobs; however, if a “substitution†situation is the reality immigration can lead to out-migration of the non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184446