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Do migrants get good jobs in Australia? : the role of ethnic networks in job search
Mahuteau, Stéphane (contributor);  … - 2008
We study the role of ethnic networks in migrants' job search and the quality of jobs they find in the first years of … result of restrictions in welfare eligibility since 1997, we study whether this increases the probability that new migrants … view. However, accounting for their higher employability, new migrants seem to fare better up to a year and half after …
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Do migrants get good jobs in Australia? : the role of ethnic networks in job search
Mahuteau, Stéphane; Junankar, Pramod N. - In: The economic record : er 84 (2008), pp. 115-130
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759145
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Do Migrants Get Good Jobs in Australia? The Role of Ethnic Networks in Job Search
Mahuteau, Stephane; Junankar, P. N. Raja - 2021
We study the role of ethnic networks in migrants job search and the quality of jobs they find in the first years of … result of restrictions in welfare eligibility since 1997, we study whether this increases the probability that new migrants … view. However, accounting for their higher employability, new migrants seem to fare better up to a year and half after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325021
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A political economy of the immigrant assimilation : internal dynamics
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2010
Within immigrant society different groups wish to help the migrants in different ways – immigrant societies are multi … the migrants. To do so they need migrant groups to invest effort in helping their country-folk. Migrant groups compete …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688921
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A political economy of the immigrant assimilation : internal dynamics
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2010
Within immigrant society different groups wish to help the migrants in different ways – immigrant societies are multi … the migrants. To do so they need migrant groups to invest effort in helping their country-folk. Migrant groups compete …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008658270
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Ethnic concentration and human capital formation
Graaff, Thomas de; Groot, Henri L. F. de - 2004
Concentration of immigrants and its associated externalities have become an important topic in contemporary international migration research, both from a methodological as well as an empirical perspective. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it aims to provide an overview of that part...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337402
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Ethnic identity : a theoretical framework
Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler, Odelia - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-11
We present a basic theoretical framework of ethnic identity, i.e., the level of immigrant's commitment to his or her host society as well as the immigrant's commitment to his or her home society. Our model can explain the emerging empirical literature which studies the effect of the immigrants'...
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How skilled immigration may improve economic equality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-13
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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Ethnosizing immigrants : a theoretical framework
Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler, Odelia - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010506013
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Ethnosizing immigrants : a theoretical framework
Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler, Odelia - 2014
Recently, Constant, Gataullina, and Zimmermann (2009) established a new method to measure ethnic identity which they called the "ethnosizer". Using information on an individual's language, culture, social interactions, history of migration, and ethnic self-identification, the method classifies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010430729