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Social cohesion and labor mobility
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018
Social cohesion and labor mobility both have the same objective and do not need to be in conflict. They are about cooperating among individuals and societies in order to survive and prosper. Social cohesion can benefit from labour mobility: Labour mobility is economically beneficial for migrants...
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Ethnische Vielfalt und Arbeitsmarkterfolg
Rinne, Ulf; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010
Das ökonomische Potenzial ethnischer und kultureller Vielfalt wird häufig verkannt. Die Ergebnisse neuerer Studien, die in diesem Beitrag zusammengefasst werden, zeigen jedoch, dass sich "weiche" Faktoren wie etwa Einstellungen, Wahrnehmungen und Identitäten, hier insbesondere ethnische...
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Migration und Integration : Deutschland als Einwanderungsland – „... denn ihr seid selbst Fremde in Ägypten gewesen“
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011
selbstbewusster und unaufgeregter Umgang mit den Themen Migration und Integration angeregt, zu dem Deutschland leider bislang nicht …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008841597
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Qualification structure, over- and underqualification of the foreign born in Austria and the EU
Huber, Peter; Nowotny, Klaus; Bock-Schappelwein, Julia - 2010
This project focuses on comparing the qualification structure of migrants residing in Austria as well as their over- and underqualification rates to other EU countries. The skill structure of foreign born residing in Austria has improved slightly in the last years. Austria is, however,...
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Aliyah to Israel : immigration under conditions of adversity
Neuman, Shoshana - 1999
"Operation Solomon". What were the factors that drove this unprecedented migration of Jews from around the globe to Israel? Many … of the major international migration movements were largely economic in nature (the push of poverty or the pull of … migration, which reflects failure to absorb, is discussed, and the very different absorption policies of the 1950s and the 1990s …
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Migration, friendship ties and cultural assimilation
Facchini, Giovanni; Patacchini, Eleonora; Steinhardt, … - 2014
Using novel information from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1996-2011, we document that migrants with a German friend are more similar to natives than those without a local companion along several important dimensions, including engagement in social activities, concerns about the...
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Does better pre-migration performance accelerate immigrants' wage assimilation? : conference paper
Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Toomet, Ott; Hochfellner, … - 2013
include a standardized measure of immigrants' pre-migration wage based on occupation, industry, tenure, qualification, and the … partial. A 10% higher pre-migration wage translates into a 1.6% higher wage in Germany when also controlling for educational … market. We also find that wage assimilation is significantly accelerated for immigrants with a higher pre-migration wage. Our …
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Meet the need for inclusive urbanization in China : migrants' urban housing demand along their socio-economic transition
Gottschalch, Sören - 2015
in China, the paper calls for a housing strategy that accommodates the surging waves of rural to urban migration, one of … strategies in the face of distinctive urban opportunities and threats. In the context of migration, they form the underlying …
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Russian migrants to Russia : assimilation and local labor market effects
Lazareva, Olga - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-25
after about ten years after the peak of migration wave. …
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Social networks and (political) assimilationin the age of mass migration
Biavaschi, Costanza; Giulietti, Corrado; Zenou, Yves - 2022
This paper investigates the causal pathways through which ethnic social networks influence individual naturalization. Using the complete-count Census of 1930, we digitize information on the exact residence of newly arrived immigrants in New York City. This allows us to define networks with a...
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