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Immigrant assimilation and male labor market inequality

Mason, Patrick L. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 17, pp. 1-32

. Unskilled immigrants who arrive in the USA as children and adolescents experience substantial wage assimilation, especially …, black immigrants do not obtain wage assimilation equal to native-born non-Hispanic white male workers. …

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Hispanic Americans in the labor market : patterns over time and across generations

Antman, Francisca M.; Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2022

This article reviews evidence on the labor market performance of Hispanics in the United States, with a particular focus on the US-born segment of this population. After discussing critical issues that arise in the US data sources commonly used to study Hispanics, we document how Hispanics...

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Estimating immigrant earnings profiles when migrations are temporary

Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2016

The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many - if not most - migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...

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Wage assimilation of immigrants : which factors close the gap? - evidence from Germany

Lehmer, Florian; Ludsteck, Johannes - 2012

and 2000 show significant differences in the assimilation processes between nationalities. We examine the sources of wage … assimilation for migrants in Germany by estimating fixed effects regressions for migrants and Germans separately. Based on the … percent in 2008. According to the decomposition results this wage assimilation of 10 percentage points can almost completely …

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Limits to wage growth : understanding the wage divergence between immigrants and natives

Jain, Apoorva; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2017

panel from 1984 to 2014. We incorporate the possibility of wage divergence into a two-period model of economic assimilation …

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The immigrant wage gap and assimilation in Korea

Kim, Hyejin; Lee, Chulhee - 2021

-market assimilation for immigrant workers in South Korea. We find that immigrants to Korea earn 17-29% less upon arrival than natives with … similar characteristics, and the wage gap diminishes by 1.55%p per year spent in the country. The patterns of assimilation … results of our out-migration analysis suggest that the negative assimilation of non-Asian and Japanese immigrants may be due …

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Microeconometric Analyses on Economic Consequences of Selective Migration

Ruhose, Jens - 2015

This volume was prepared by Jens Ruhose while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes four self-contained chapters that contribute to the understanding of the...

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Immigration: the European experience

Dustmann, Christian; Frattini, Tommaso - 2011

This paper first presents a brief historical overview of immigration in Europe. We then provide (and distinguishing between EU and non-EU immigrants) a comprehensive analysis of the skill structures of immigrants and their labor market integration in the different European countries, their...

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Temporary foreign workers and firms : theory and Canadian evidence

Brochu, Pierre; Gross, Till; Worswick, Christopher - 2016

The goal of our paper is to better understand the economic implications of Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) programs as well as comprehend the underlying reasons for the rapid expansion of the number of TFWs hired by employers under the Canadian program brought to light in 2014. We present an...

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Immigrant overeducation across generations : the role of gender and part-time work

Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2024

A large body of literature shows that first-generation immigrants born in developing countries experience a higher likelihood of being overeducated than natives (i.e. immigrant overeducation). However, evidence is remarkably scarce when it comes to the overeducation of second-generation...

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