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Eastern European immigrants in the UK before and after the 2004 European enlargement

Longhi, Simonetta; Rokicka, Magdalena - 2012 - This version: 31 January 2012

The 2004 accession of Eastern European countries to the EU has generated concerns about the influx of low-skill immigrants to those countries which did not impose restrictions to immigration, namely Ireland, Sweden, and the UK. However, there is lack of recent systematic evidence on the level of...

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Mapping the occupational segregation of white women in the U.S. : differences across metropolitan areas

Alonso Villar, Olga; Río Otero, Coral del - 2015

territorial differences in a) the educational level of white women, b) the gender-race composition of the labor force, c) the …

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Equality of the sexes and gender differences in competition : evidence from three traditional societies

Klonner, Stefan; Pal, Sumantra; Schwieren, Christiane - 2020

Can gender-balanced social norms mitigate the gender differences in competitiveness that are observed in traditional … previously been studied. We find that, unlike in the patriarchic society, there is no significant gender difference in the … inclination to compete in the gender-balanced society. We also find that women's decisions in our experiment are optimal more …

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Voluntary brain waste and the reservation wage of migrants : evidence from Austria and three CEE countries

Nowotny, Klaus - 2012 - Preliminary draft

Stylized facts show that migrants more often face overqualified employment than natives. As shown by previous research, one third of the employed foreign born with tertiary education in the EU-15 are overqualified, with levels reaching up to 57.6%, compared to 20.9% among natives. Among the...

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Settlement and migration patterns among immigrants in Norway

Stambøl, Lasse Sigbjørn - 2014

their reason of immigration. The immigration has changed from a gender balance during the first years of the 2000 towards a …

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Cultural distance and gravity effects among migrants : a comparative analysis of the EU15

Tubadji, Annie; Nijkamp, Peter - 2013

This paper introduces cultural gravity as a new concept for analyzing socio-economic disparities among immigrants. It tests the existence of cultural gravity effects on the geographic concentration and human capital productivity of immigrants. Using cultural distance as a proxy for the local...

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The immigrant wage gap in Germany : are East Europeans worse off?

Lehmer, Florian; Ludsteck, Johannes - 2010

This study compares the outcomes of male foreign workers from different East and West European countries who entered the German labour market between 1995 and 2000, with those of male German workers. We find that the immigrant-native wage gap differs significantly between nationalities: the...

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

Lehmer, Florian; Ludsteck, Johannes - 2012

Using longitudinal employment register data this study analyzes the development of outcomes of male foreign workers from all important sending countries across time. Cohort analyses on persons entering the German labour market between 1995 and 2000 show significant differences in the...

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Forming of the new ethnic image of Saint Petersburg

Krasnov, Anton I.; Zhitin, Dmitriy V. - 2015

Ethnic and migration processes in Russia after the collapse of The Soviet Union have significantly changed the ethnic composition of major Russian cities. On the one hand, we see continuing of assimilation of most national communities which historically lived in the largest Russian cities...

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Women and the labour market in East and West Germany : the role of socialist legacy and pre-socialist tradition

Wyrwich, Michael - 2019

German women in work in pre-War Germany. The paper exemplifies that considering the pre-separation history of Germany is …

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