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Eastern European immigrants in the UK before and after the 2004 European enlargement
Longhi, Simonetta; Rokicka, Magdalena - 2012 - This version: 31 January 2012
The 2004 accession of Eastern European countries to the EU has generated concerns about the influx of low-skill immigrants to those countries which did not impose restrictions to immigration, namely Ireland, Sweden, and the UK. However, there is lack of recent systematic evidence on the level of...
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Voluntary brain waste and the reservation wage of migrants : evidence from Austria and three CEE countries
Nowotny, Klaus - 2012 - Preliminary draft
Stylized facts show that migrants more often face overqualified employment than natives. As shown by previous research, one third of the employed foreign born with tertiary education in the EU-15 are overqualified, with levels reaching up to 57.6%, compared to 20.9% among natives. Among the...
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The immigrant wage gap in Germany : are East Europeans worse off?
Lehmer, Florian; Ludsteck, Johannes - 2010
This study compares the outcomes of male foreign workers from different East and West European countries who entered the German labour market between 1995 and 2000, with those of male German workers. We find that the immigrant-native wage gap differs significantly between nationalities: the...
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Wage assimilation of immigrants : which factors close the gap? - evidence from Germany
Lehmer, Florian; Ludsteck, Johannes - 2012
Using longitudinal employment register data this study analyzes the development of outcomes of male foreign workers from all important sending countries across time. Cohort analyses on persons entering the German labour market between 1995 and 2000 show significant differences in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517958
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Forming of the new ethnic image of Saint Petersburg
Krasnov, Anton I.; Zhitin, Dmitriy V. - 2015
Ethnic and migration processes in Russia after the collapse of The Soviet Union have significantly changed the ethnic composition of major Russian cities. On the one hand, we see continuing of assimilation of most national communities which historically lived in the largest Russian cities...
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On the dynamics of segregation
Dahlberg, Matz; Fredriksson, Peter; Jofre-Monseny, Jordi - 2011 - Work in progress.
Card et al (2008a) formalize a model of ethnic residential segregation where an ethnically mixed neighborhood is dynamically stable until its minority share reaches a threshold (the tipping point). Once the neighborhood has surpassed the tipping point, it will experience massive white flight....
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Occupational segregation by race and ethnicity in the US : differences across states
Gradín, Carlos; Río Otero, Coral del; Alonso Villar, Olga - 2011
Using the 2005-2007 American Community Survey, we analyze the occupational segregation of workers by race and ethnicity …
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Assessment of labour market returns in the case of gender unique human capital
Tverdostup, Maryna; Paas, Tiiu - 2016
opposite gender human capital and the analysis of its effect on the earning profiles of unique human capital holders. The … overwhelming research aim is to better understand the possible reasons behind gender wage disparities, focusing on the unique … features of male and female human capital and their returns. When assessing the gender pay disparities, variation of human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012490728
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Women and the labour market in East and West Germany : the role of socialist legacy and pre-socialist tradition
Wyrwich, Michael - 2019
German women in work in pre-War Germany. The paper exemplifies that considering the pre-separation history of Germany is …
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Decomposing gender wage gaps : a family economics perspective
Averkamp, Dorothée; Bredemeier, Christian; Jüßen, Falko - 2021
considerably larger shares of the gender wage gap than does the standard decomposition. …
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