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This paper explores the role of school quality in immigrants' home countries on their earnings in Germany, using native Germans as a benchmark. We propose an empirical analysis that highlights two important insights. First, there is a substantial gap in the returns to education between natives...
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decades, it is important to know both how migrants integrate into the destination countries and how immigration affects …-contained chapters that contribute to the understanding of the performance of migrants in the host society and the impact of migrants on …. Chapters 4 and 5 cover the effect of immigration on the host societies by showing that growing up in high immigration area …
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Previous studies show that immigrants married to natives earn higher wages than immigrants married to other immigrants. Using data from the 1980-2000 U.S. censuses and the 2005- 2010 American Community Surveys, we show that these wage premiums have increased over time. Our evidence suggests that...
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This study analyzes the educational attainment and early labor market outcomes of young migrants from the Former Soviet … Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational … attainments than natives, and that within the group of migrants, Jewish migrants perform better than ethnic German migrants. A …
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As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working-age population in the developed world, their labour market integration constitutes a key factor for fostering economic development and social cohesion. Using a granular, matched...
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As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working-age population in the developed world, their labour market integration constitutes a key factor for fostering economic development and social cohesion. Using a granular, matched...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470617
international transferability of immigrants' human capital, and undereducation to favorable selection in immigration. Comparisons …
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enter the country also expanded in the last decade. While immigration policy legislation towards Jewish migrants was formed … soon after its independence, Israel still lacks a coherent immigration policy towards labor migrants and asylum seekers. …Israel perceives the immigration of Jews as one of its major goals and thus it applies no selection rules towards them …
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The paper investigates whether self-employment represents a way to reduce overeducation and improve labour market matching, in a comparative analysis between immigrants and natives. Using the EU Labour Force Survey for the year 2012, and controlling for a list of demographic characteristics and...
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We use data from the Trajectoires et Origines survey to analyze the labor-market outcomes of both second-generation immigrants and their French native counterparts. Second-generation immigrants have on average a lower probability of employment and lower wages than French natives. We find however...
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