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In this paper we deliver first causal evidence on the relationship between immigrant host country language proficiency and homeownership. Using an instrumental variable strategy, we find a substantial positive impact of language skills on the propensity to own a home and the quality of housing....
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Der Beitrag diskutiert die Fragen, (1) inwieweit sich Indizien für eine soziale Exklusion beziehungsweise einen Mangel an gesellschaftlichen Teilhabechancen in der Alltagsmobilität und der Wohnstandortwahl finden und (2) welche Rolle in diesem Kontext subjektive Wohnstandort- und...
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Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...
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Does pro-immigrant legislation improve financial inclusion? This paper examines how granting safe havens for immigrants … immigrants. …
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.S.-born non-Hispanic white households. Recent Taiwanese immigrants, rather than climbing socioeconomic ladders overtime, may have …, and Yu 2003). This paper extends this research and specifically examines Taiwanese immigrants' high homeownership …; (2) homeownership gaps between Taiwanese and other Chinese immigrants are quite large among newcomers, converging …
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This study investigates the impact of migrants’ post-migration experiences on their integration and housing behaviors. Collaborating with a local town council, we surveyed 1,128 households living in Singapore public housing estates and constructed instrumental variables to resolve...
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This paper is an analysis of the English-language proficiency and labor market earnings of Soviet Jewish immigrants to … the 1980 and 1990 Censuses. A consistent finding is that recently arrived Soviet Jewish immigrants have lower levels of … English proficiency and earnings than other immigrants, other variables being the same. However, they have a steeper …
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Labour market assimilation of Danish first generation male immigrants is analysed based on two panel data sets covering … the population of immigrants and 10% of the Danish population during 1984-1995. Wages and employment probabilities are … due to missing wage information. The results show that immigrants assimilate partially to Danes, but the assimilation …
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of qualifications and incomplete assimilation, and that a large fraction of that gap would disappear if only immigrants …
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The most commonly used model of labor market incorporation among immigrants in the United States analyzes their … may lose much of its explanatory power in other societies, where immigrants encounter different labor market conditions … social networks by immigrants to find jobs has a significant impact on wages in both countries, the effect is positive in …
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