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Estimating immigrant earnings profiles when migrations are temporary
Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2016
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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Skill downgrading among refugees and economic immigrants in Germany : evidence from the Syrian refugee crisis
Nikolov, Plamen; Salarpour Goodarzi, Leila; Titus, David - 2022
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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Immigrant category of admission and the earnings of adults and children : how far does the apple fall?
Warman, Casey; Webb, Matthew; Worswick, Christopher - 2018
Immigrants in many Western countries have experienced poor economic outcomes. This has led to a lack of integration of child immigrants (the 1.5 generation) and the second generation in some countries. However, in Canada, child immigrants and the second generation have on average integrated very...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131428
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Regulations for returning labour migrants to Ukraine : international background and national limitations
Dluhopolskyi, Oleksandr; Zatonatska, Tetiana; Lʹvova, … - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 22 (2019) 3, pp. 45-64
. The article is devoted to the policy on the return of labour migrants to Ukraine. The issues of the increasing number of … from Ukraine and boundary crossings by other migrants. By means of analysing the interaction between the rate of human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012120243
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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 … slightly in the last years. Austria is, however, characterised by a high share of medium skilled migrants and a low share of … highly skilled migrants. In addition among the pool of migrants in the EU from a given country, Austria generally selects the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392340
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Self-selection, earnings, and out-migration : a longitudinal study of immigrants to Germany
Constant, Amelie; Massey, Douglas S. - 2002
In this paper we seek to deepen understanding of out-migration as a social and economic process and to investigate whether cross-sectional earnings assimilation results suffer from selection bias. To model the process of out-migration we conduct a detailed event history analysis of men and women...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415559
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Negative and positive assimilation by prices and by quantities
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2013
immigrant women from the ESDC, who are more likely than married immigrant women from the same countries to be economic migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009740293
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Earnings growth of Mexican immigrants : new versus traditional destinations
Kaushal, Neeraj; Shang, Ce - 2013
We study the earnings of Mexican immigrants in their traditional and newer destinations in the US. Analysis based on longitudinal data suggests that during 2001-2009, the real wage of Mexican immigrants increased 1-2% a year at the traditional destinations, but remained mostly statistically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009753743
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Self-Selection, Earnings, and Out-Migration : A Longitudinal Study of Immigrants to Germany
Constant, Amelie F.; Massey, Douglas - 2021
In this paper we seek to deepen understanding of out-migration as a social and economic process and to investigate whether cross-sectional earnings assimilation results suffer from selection bias. To model the process of out-migration we conduct a detailed event history analysis of men and women...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320128
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Self-selection, earnings, and out-migration : a longitudinal study of immigrants to Germany
Constant, Amelie - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013268939