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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 … upward economic mobility among lowskilled immigrants. More broadly prioritizing high-skilled immigrants may prove to be more …
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immigrants if employers perceive them as less skilled than native-born workers - and vice versa. Studies indicate that a higher … minimum wage does not hurt immigrants, but there is no consensus on whether immigrants benefit at the expense of natives …. Studies also reach disparate conclusions on whether higher minimum wages attract or repel immigrants. …
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national survey of the SEO and the Population statistics ofthe CBS. Firstly, the directeffect of immigrants on local labour … wages of less skilled natives and a small positive effecton the wages of high skilledworkers as new immigrants are less … skillednatives are a little adverselyaffected by immigrants. …
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capital is important for understanding the economic integration of immigrants. …
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There are various degrees of similarity between the languages of different immigrants and the language of their … study aims at quantifying the influence of linguistic distance on the language acquisition of immigrants in the US and in …
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The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied … incidence, wage effects and state dependence in overeducation among natives and immigrants. In line with previous research we … find a higher incidence and a lower return to overeducation among immigrants indicating that immigrants lose more from …
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also use the 1991 distribution of immigrants by nationality across European labor markets to construct a version of the … enclave-based instrument to proxy for the flow of immigrants, that is exogenous to local demand shocks. We find that native … Europeans are more likely to upgrade to more skilled and better paid occupations, when a larger number of immigrants enter their …
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