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Improving well-being in New Zealand through migration
Carey, David - 2019
New Zealand’s immigration system aims to enhance well-being by promoting economic development, reuniting families and … meeting humanitarian objectives. Immigration is high and residence admissions are focused on the high skilled to enhance … economic outcomes. Empirical evidence suggests that immigration has had small positive effects on per capita incomes and has …
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Racial Disparities in Job Finding and Offered Wages
Fryer, Roland G. - 2014
The extent to which discrimination can explain racial wage gaps is one of the most divisive subjects in the social sciences. Using a newly available dataset, this paper develops a simple empirical test which, under plausible conditions, provides a lower bound on the extent of discrimination in...
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Population with criminal records and racial disparity in labor markets
Boatner, Jasmine - In: IZA journal of labor policy 9 (2019) 1, pp. 1-13
Background: Although unemployment rates are at historical lows, there is still a persistent gap between unemployment rates in black and white population. Some have proposed that part of the gap for men can be explained by the higher rate of criminal records in the black population. Methods: This...
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Endowment or discrimination? : an analysis of immigrant-native earnings differentials in Switzerland
Golder, Stefan M. - 2000
Recent studies have shown that there are significant earnings differentials between immigrants and natives in Switzerland. The goal of this paper is to determine whether these differences can be attributed to diverging socio-economic endowments or to discrimination. We use the well-known...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476143
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Wage discrimination and occupational segregation of foreign male workers in Germany
Velling, Johannes - 1995
We analyze wage discrimination against foreign male workers in Germany with respect to different nationality groups and focused on its interaction with occupational segregation. We found evidence of strong occupational segregation, which we mainly attribute to institutional factors but also to...
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The effect of host society culture on migrant wage discrimination : approaching the Roestigraben
Kohler, Pierre - 2012
. -- immigration ; migration ; labour market ; culture ; political preferences ; wage discrimination ; Switzerland …
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Gender and immigration : double negative effects in the labor market outcomes of university graduates in Germany? ; conference paper
Bünstorf, Guido; Krabel, Stefan - 2014 - This version: February 2014
terms of gender and immigration status). Similar patterns are obtained for job satisfaction and the match quality of …
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Skin Color Discrimination and Immigrant Pay
Hersch, Joni - 2009
In "Profiling the New Immigrant Worker: The Effects of Skin Color and Height," (Journal of Labor Economics 2008), I present strong evidence of a wage penalty to darker skin color among new legal immigrants to the United States. Immigrants with the lightest skin color earn on average 17 percent...
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The labor market in New Zealand, 2000-2017 : employment has grown steadily and the gender gap and skill premiums have fallen
Maré, David Christopher - 2018
crisis later that year. The labor market recovery was slow until 2013, when net immigration, employment growth, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816155
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Decomposing immigrant wage assimilation: The role of workplaces and occupations
Eliasson, Tove - 2013
This article uses a matched employer-employee panel data of the Swedish labor market to study immigrant wage assimilation, decomposing the wage catch-up into parts which can be attributed to relative wage growth within and between workplaces and occupations. This study shows that failing to...
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