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Since ethnic clustering is common in Germany, a better understanding of its effects on the integration of immigrants could be important for integration policies, especially in the light of rising immigration and a skilled worker shortage. Yet, both economic theory and empirical research for...
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probability of immigrants, and for second or higher generation migrants, a positive impact of clustering on wages. …
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Since ethnic clustering is common in Germany, a better understanding of its effects on the integration of immigrants could be important for integration policies, especially in the light of rising immigration and a skilled worker shortage. Yet, both economic theory and empirical research for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026168
This article provides causal evidence of the significant role ethnic networks play in facilitating labor market integration by reducing information frictions. Using full population geocoded employer-employee matched Swedish register data, we investigate how co-ethnic commuters can influence the...
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the main gateway of the Venezuelan refugees and migrants entering Brazil, and focusing on the formal sector employment of …
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the main gateway of the Venezuelan refugees and migrants entering Brazil, and focusing on the formal sector employment of …
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This working paper assesses the ease of immigrants' integration in OECD labour markets by estimating how an immigration background influences the probability of being active or employed and the expected hourly earnings, for given individual characteristics. Applying the same methodology to...
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Immigrants are more likely to have conationals as colleagues, however the consequences of such workplace segregation is an open question. I study the effect of the conational share in an immigrant's first job on subsequent labour market outcomes using register data from Germany. I instrument for...
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-contained chapters that contribute to the understanding of the performance of migrants in the host society and the impact of migrants on … decades, it is important to know both how migrants integrate into the destination countries and how immigration affects …
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This paper explores the issue of discrimination against Asian migrants in the Australian labour market using a unique … being unemployed for Asian and non-Asian migrants controlling for various characteristics including age, education, and … English language ability. More importantly, we control for the visa status of the migrants. Our results suggest that there are …
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