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Immigrants' economic performance and selective outmigration: diverging predictions from survey and administrative data

Bellemare, Charles; Kyui, Natalia; Lacroix, Guy - 2021

outmigration yield very different qualitative and quantitative predictions. Survey-based estimates substantially overpredict … outmigration, in particular for lower performing immigrants. Consequently, employment and earnings of immigrants who remain in the … sources find opposite self-selection mechanisms into outmigration. Differences hold despite using the same cohort, survey …

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Immigrants' economic performance and selective outmigration : diverging predictions from survey and administrative data

Bellemare, Charles; Kyui, Natalia; Lacroix, Guy - 2021

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Dynamics of the employment assimilation of first-generation immigrant men in Sweden : comparing dynamic and static assimilation models with longitudinal data

Akay, Alpaslan - 2009

We analyse the dynamics of employment assimilation of first-generation immigrant men in Sweden using a high-quality, register-based panel data set. It is discussed that when there are significant differences between employment status persistence of immigrants and natives, the standard static...

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Dynamics of the Employment Assimilation of First-Generation Immigrant Men in Sweden : Comparing Dynamic and Static Assimilation Models with Longitudinal Data

Akay, Alpaslan - 2009

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Immigrant wages in the Spanish labour market : does the origin of human capital matter?

Sanromá, Esteban; Ramos, Raúl; Simón, Hipólito - 2009

The aim of this paper is to analyse the role played by the different components of human capital in the wage determination of recent immigrants within the Spanish labour market. Using microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes 2007, the paper examines returns to human capital of...

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Did employer sanctions lose their bite? : labor market effects of immigrant legalization

Lofstrom, Magnus; Hill, Laura; Hayes, Joseph M. - 2010

Taking advantage of the ability to identify immigrants who were unauthorized to work prior to obtaining Legal Permanent Resident status, we use the New Immigrant Survey to examine whether lacking legal status to work in the U.S. constrains employment outcomes of illegal immigrants. With the...

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The economic progress of American Jewry : from 18th century merchants to 21st century professionals

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2009

This paper tracks the economic status of American Jewry over the past three centuries. It relies on qualitative material in the early period and quantitative data since 1890. The primary focus is on the occupational status of Jewish men and women, compared to non-Jews, with additional analyses...

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The structure of Canada's immigration system and Canadian labour market outcomes

Sweetman, Arthur; Warman, Casey - 2012 - Version: January 15, 2012

Two distinct issues are addressed. First, we explore earnings and employment outcome differences across categories of the immigrant selection system and directly link the points system to these outcomes, which is relatively rare in Canadian research. Second, the appropriateness of alternative...

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Improving the labour market integration of immigrants in Belgium

Pina, Álvaro Manuel; Corluy, Vincent; Verbist, Gerlinde - 2015

Immigrants make up one fifth of the Belgian working age population, but their labour market integration is poor. Employment rates of non-EU immigrants, in particular, are very low, and the problem extends to their native-born offspring. Further, with more precarious jobs and lower wages,...

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Immigrants and entrepreneurship : business ownership is higher among immigrants, but promoting self-employment is unlikely to improve outcomes for less skilled immigrants

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2014

Immigrants are widely perceived to be highly entrepreneurial, contributing to economic growth and innovation, and self-employment is often viewed as a means of enhancing labor market integration and success among immigrants. Accordingly, many countries have established special visas and entry...

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