Showing 1 - 10 of 4,235
-time employment, usually while attending an education institution. Three years after arrival, one-third of NES immigrants are now …Three decades ago, most immigrants to Australia with work entitlements came as permanent settlers. Today the annual … immigrants come first as a temporary immigrant, to work or study, and then seek to move to permanent status. Around one-half of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025422
labour market integration. We investigate a government-sponsored language training programme for immigrants in France. Using … both difference-in-differences (DiD) and matching-DiD, we find that, for employed immigrants, longer hours of training … significantly increases their chances of having a formal-sector job and a permanent employment contract. We also find suggestive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013244060
history models to compare refugees' entry into and exit out of the first employment, contrasting their outcomes with family … first employment as compared to other migrant groups. They also run a greater risk of exiting out of their first employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011934480
Upon arrival to a new country, many immigrants face job downgrading, a phenomenon describing workers being in jobs far … below where they would be assigned based on their skills. Downgrading leads to immigrants receiving lower returns to the … examines the determinants of skill downgrading among two types of immigrants - refugees and economic immigrants - in the German …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013285855
A growing body of programme evaluation literature recognises immigrants as a disadvantaged group on European labour … markets and investigates the employment effects of Active Labour Market Pro-grammes (ALMPs) on this subgroup. Using a meta … combat immigrant unemployment: training, job search assistance, and subsidised public and private sector employment. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009784011
) work for immigrants. From the existing literature, we identify 24 research papers estimating 79 short-run treatment effects … of ALMPs on immigrants. We perform a meta-analysis of these findings based on the sign and significance of the estimates …. This allows us to present quantitative evidence for the relative effectiveness for immigrants of different types of ALMPs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342802
A growing body of programme evaluation literature recognises immigrants as a disadvantaged group in European labour … markets and investigates the employment effects of Active Labour Market Programmes (ALMPs) on this subgroup. So far, however …, there is no systematic review establishing which ALMPs are effective for immigrants. Using a meta-analysis, we condense 93 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472788
the employment gap between male immigrants and natives. The results show that the traditional human capital theory only …, large unexplained employment gaps still persists between immigrants and natives and between migrant categories. Our analysis … employment outcomes for immigrants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476506
This article studies the importance of local conditions for the employment integration of refugees in Sweden, this in … monitoring the regional variation in employment integration of twelve refugee groups, this paper, with the use of logistic … and employment rates, a proxy for the local supply of jobs, significantly affected the individual refugees' chances to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317242
This paper analyzes the Hebrew language proficiency, probability of employment, and labor market earnings of immigrants … features of the analysis include the study of long-duration immigrants (3 to 20 years), and analyses for: males and females … and non-Jewish immigrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU), in addition to standard immigration, demographic, and human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532583