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. 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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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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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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-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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panel from 1984 to 2014. We incorporate the possibility of wage divergence into a two-period model of economic assimilation …
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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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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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Theoretically, wage gaps between migrants and natives can be explained by human capital theory through either depreciation in human capital with migration or differences in endowments. However, even after considering human capital measures, an unexplained difference remains. We assume that...
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While much of the literature on immigrants' assimilation has focused on countries with a large tradition of receiving … immigrations' assimilation process. Using alternative datasets and methodologies, this paper provides evidence of a differential … assimilation pattern for low- versus high-skilled immigrants in Spain: our key finding is that having a high-school degree does not …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742892