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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 same skills than natives. The level of downgrading could...
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employment outcomes of labour migrants (with and without a job prior to migration), family reunion migrants, student migrants and …' employment likelihood is lower when compared to labour migrants and natives. Refugees who do work tend to do so in temporary jobs … and in jobs that are below their skill levels. However, temporary employment is also prevalent among labour migrants …
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We estimate the causal effect of immigration on unemployment, employment and wages of resident employees in Switzerland … increased employment of residents in the last decade. …
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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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for migrants. Despite finding significant correlations between self-employment and some of these factors, none of them … aversion, which is usually not observed, yet crucial for the self-employment decision. Unlike most of the existing empirical … migrants and those coming from Sub-Saharan Africa, while it is not significant for mixed immigrant-native couples, for highly …
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for migrants. Despite finding significant correlations between self-employment and some of these factors, none of them … aversion, which is usually not observed, yet crucial for the self-employment decision. Unlike most of the existing empirical … migrants and those coming from Sub-Saharan Africa, while it is not significant for mixed immigrant-native couples, for highly …
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natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between … the two groups mainly in terms of risk attitudes and positive reciprocity. Second generation migrants have a significantly … employment probability about two months after unemployment entry. We observe a significantly lower employment probability for …
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Mobile workers involve flows of labor and human capital and contribute to a more efficient allocation of resources. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving society. The paper suggests that skilled immigration...
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The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many - if not most - migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...
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natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between … the two groups mainly in terms of risk attitudes and positive reciprocity. Second generation migrants have a significantly … employment probability about two months after unemployment entry. We observe a significantly lower employment probability for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009274117