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impacts following from new immigrants are not found to be warranted. However, it is also clear that government policies and … practices regarding the selection and integration of new migrants affect labour market, fiscal and social/cultural outcomes …
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refugees' labour market experiences in Austria, compared to other non-European migrants from low- and medium-income countries. … Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), together with wiiw, and which document the experiences of recent waves of refugees from … occupational status loss (or gain) that refugees experience in the course of the move from their home countries to the destination …
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I examine the effect of English language proficiency on the occupational choices of childhood immigrants into the …'s superior language acquisition abilities to estimate the causal effect of English language skills on immigrants' choice of … immigrants to work in more lucrative occupations. In addition, a better grasp of the English language leads immigrants to choose …
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points. The marginal effects are larger for asylum seekers who speak a language that is linguistically close to the one in …
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percentage points. The marginal effects are larger for asylum seekers who speak a language that is linguistically close to the …
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percentage points. The marginal effects are larger for asylum seekers who speak a language that is linguistically close to the …
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The most commonly used model of labor market incorporation among immigrants in the United States analyzes their … earnings largely as a function of human capital variables such as education, language competence, age, length of residence and … may lose much of its explanatory power in other societies, where immigrants encounter different labor market conditions …
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migrants in the host country. A number of employment outcomes are examined including access to employment, access to stable … labour market integration of refugees in the host country. The paper highlights the differentiated impacts of these resources … on the refugees’ outcomes at six months and one year after arrival. …
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Empirically identifying the causal effect of social networks on migrants' economic prospects is a challenging task due … to the non-random residential sorting of migrants into locations with greater opportunities for (previous) connections …. Our study addresses this selection-bias issue by using a unique natural-experimental dataset of refugees and other …
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to positions with fewer immigrants. We also found that immigrant presence in the formal sector potentially pushed wages … downwards, but the presence of immigrants in the informal sector offsets the substitution effects. Overall, the study highlights … of immigrants and native workers …
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