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Occuptational choice across generations
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2004
There are few studies on occupational choices in Germany, and the second generation occupational choice and mobility is even less investigated. Such research is important because occupations determine success in the labor market. In a country like Germany occupations also reflect a general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272271
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Occupational choice across generations
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2003
There are few studies on occupational choices in Germany, and the second generation occupational choice and mobility is even less investigated. Such research is important because occupations determine success in the labor market. In a country like Germany occupations also reflect a general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272294
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Labour market entry of migrants in Germany: Does cultural diversity matter?
Haas, Anette; Damelang, Andreas - 2007
Der Beitrag analysiert den Arbeitsmarktzugang von jugendlichen Migranten in Deutschland nach Abschluss ihrer Lehrzeit. Dabei gilt das besondere Interesse der Auswirkung lokaler kultureller Verschiedenheit auf den erfolgreichen Start einer beruflichen Karriere. Der Fokus liegt auf einer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331068
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Occupational choice of migrants : does NEG tell something new?
Ivanova, Vera; Ushchev, Philip; Vakhitova, Hanna - 2015 - Very preliminary
determinants of workers' migration decisions and their occupational choice in destination regions. …
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The role of migration experience in migrants' destination choice
Chernina, Eugenia - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1/1, pp. 1-29
In this article, we employ a panel household survey from Tajikistan to study labor migrants' location choices in Russia. We find that labor migrants from Tajikistan consider a wide variety of economic, demographic, and geographical characteristics of Russian regions when making location choices....
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Data sources on migrants' labour market and education integration in Austria
Huber, Peter; Fink, Marian; Horvath, Gerard Thomas - 2020
As part of a larger research project, we survey existing data sets and research results on immigrants' integration success in Austria focusing on educational and labour market outcomes. We consider different registers as well as survey data available to researchers on a regular basis and compare...
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Migrant's pursuit of happiness. The impact of adaption, social comparison and relative deprivation: Evidence from a "natural" experiment
Melzer, Silvia Maja; Muffels, Ruud J. - 2012
inquire the impact of migration on subjective well-being (SWB). The main goal of the research is to assessing the impact of … Germany after the German reunification in 1989. We suspect that the gains or losses in subjective well-being after migration … migration on SWB, although it is strongly suppressed by dissatisfaction resulting from the comparison of migrants' income with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286907
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Job mobility as a new explanation for the immigrant-native wage gap : a longitudinal analysis for the German labor market
Brenzel, Hanna; Reichelt, Malte - 2015
depreciation in human capital with migration or differences in endowments. However, even after considering human capital measures …. Diese unterstellt Ausstattungsunterschiede oder eine Abwertung von Humankapital bei Migration. Trotzdem bleibt auch nach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500648
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Social networks and (political) assimilationin the age of mass migration
Biavaschi, Costanza; Giulietti, Corrado; Zenou, Yves - 2022
This paper investigates the causal pathways through which ethnic social networks influence individual naturalization. Using the complete-count Census of 1930, we digitize information on the exact residence of newly arrived immigrants in New York City. This allows us to define networks with a...
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New directions in immigration policy : Canada's evolving approach to the selection of economic immigrants
Ferrer, Ana M.; Picot, Garnett; Riddell, William Craig - 2014
Canada's immigration system is currently undergoing significant change driven by several goals that include (1) a desire to improve the economic outcomes of entering immigrants; (2) an attempt to better respond to short-term regional labor market shortages often associated with commodity booms,...
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