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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 …
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urbanised areas. Immigrants have high well-being outcomes on average but suffer an initial shortfall in employment and wages … not adversely affected the wage or employment outcomes of the average NZ-born worker. However, temporary migration has had … further adjustments to the system to enhance its well-being benefits for both the NZ-born and immigrants. This Working Paper …
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What are the perceptions of employers towards hiring immigrants and international students in Atlantic Canada? How are … those employers who report beliefs that multiculturalism is creativity-enhancing in the workplace and that immigrants are … perceptions that immigrants tend to take jobs from domestic workers, accept lower pay, have a lower retention probability, face …
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We use the panel data from the Building a New Life in Australia survey to examine the relationships between proficiency in English and labour market outcomes among humanitarian migrants. Having better general or speaking skills in English is certainly associated with a higher propensity for...
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continuum of tasks in each sector and we augment it to include immigrants with heterogeneous productivity in tasks. We use this …-savings' effect they may leave unaffected, or even increase, total native employment of less skilled workers. Our model also predicts … positive net effect on native employment while offshoring has no effect on it. We also find some evidence that offshoring has …
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continuum of tasks in each sector and we augment it to include immigrants with heterogeneous productivity in tasks. We use this …-savings" effect they may leave unaffected, or even increase, total native employment of less skilled workers. Our model also predicts … positive net effect on native employment while offshoring has no effect on it. We also find some evidence that offshoring has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506725
continuum of tasks in each sector and we augment it to include immigrants with heterogeneous productivity in tasks. We use this …-savings" effect they may leave unaffected, or even increase, total native employment of less skilled workers. Our model also predicts … positive net effect on native employment while offshoring has no effect on it. We also find some evidence that offshoring has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596413
. We find that this combination of policy adjustments substantively improved short-term employment outcomes amongst skilled …
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We study the extent and consequences of biases against immigrants exhibited by high school teachers in Finland …
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We study the extent and consequences of biases against immigrants exhibited by high school teachers in Finland …
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