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effect of social capital on migrants' employment outcomes and wages, especially for women. Distinguishing employment into … results suggest that promoting opportunities to create social capital has a beneficial effect on migrants' integration in the …
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of social contacts and Dutch language proficiency on adult foreign-born men's earnings, employment and occupational … with high-skill-transferability, and are stronger for economic migrants than for non-economic migrants. Contact with Dutch … evidence for the positive effect of co-ethnic contact on employment status. …
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proficiency on adult foreign-born men's earnings, employment and occupational status. On average, social contacts and a good …-skill-transferability than for immigrants with high-skill-transferability, are stronger for economic migrants than for non-economic migrants, and …-ethnic contact on employment status. To deal with the endogeneity between Dutch language ability and earnings, an interaction term …
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Empirically identifying the causal effect of social networks on migrants' economic prospects is a challenging task due … to the non-random residential sorting of migrants into locations with greater opportunities for (previous) connections … migrants that were exogenously allocated to their first place of residence by German authorities. The empirical results reveal …
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the entry into the labour market, but it has a much smaller impact on the duration of the first employment spell and on …
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This paper assesses the extent to which social contacts and ethnic concentration affect the education-occupation mismatch of natives and immigrants. Using Australian panel data and employing a dynamic random effects probit model, we show that social capital exacerbates the incidence of...
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the living standards of entrepreneurs. In both cases we ask whether these interrelationships differ between migrants and … in the sample who obtained income from self‐employment or from owning a business. Social capital is proxied by responses … Development. We find significant differences between migrants and the native born in terms of the attributes of social capital …
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Kollektivistische Gesellschaften verfügen über ein höheres gemeinschaftsspezifisches Sozialkapital als … individualistische Gesellschaften. Dieses gesellschaftsspezifische Sozialkapital macht das Verlassen der Gemeinschaft kostspieliger, kann …
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individuals in Aotearoa New Zealand is associated with birthplace and, for migrants, years since migration. We also consider the … shows that, as expected, migrants have little local social capital upon arrival. However, differences between their social …. When the migrant share in a region is larger than the national average, migrants invest less in bridging social capital …
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individuals in Aotearoa New Zealand is associated with birthplace and, for migrants, years since migration. We also consider the … shows that, as expected, migrants have little local social capital upon arrival. However, differences between their social …. When the migrant share in a region is larger than the national average, migrants invest less in bridging social capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015063156