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Netherlands, which implies that all migrants are (self)-employed at the time of arrival. We find that many migrants leave the … country after a period of no-income. Employment characteristics and the country of origin play an important role in explaining … the dynamics. Microsimulations of synthetic cohorts reveal that many migrants experience unemployment spells, but ten …
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Netherlands, which implies that all migrants are (self)-employed at the time of arrival. We find that many migrants leave the … country after a period of no-income. Employment characteristics and the country of origin play an important role in explaining … the dynamics. Microsimulations of synthetic cohorts reveal that many migrants experience unemployment spells, but ten …
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This paper investigates how the size of co-ethnic networks at the time of arrival affect the economic success of immigrants in Germany. Applying panel analysis with a large set of fixed effects and controls, we isolate the association between initial network size and long-run immigrant outcomes....
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In this paper, we analyse the implications of labour market integration in a two-region model with local human capital externalities and congestion effects. We show that integration can be a double-edged sword. Integration and the ensuing agglomeration of skilled labour can reduce "real" income...
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We apply a monopoly trade union model and analyze employment, wage and budgetary effects of (i) an inflow of migrant … workers and (ii) an increase in the labor market participation rate of migrants. Per assumption, natives and migrants solely … inflow of migrant workers. More interesting, though, it is shown that a larger share of migrants in the workforce increases …
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previous literature. We distinguish between two types of migrants: labor and family migrants given their different labor market …. Controlling for the selective out-migration and endogeneity of labor supply, we find that labor out-migrants are positively … selected but family out-migrants are negatively selected. Furthermore, the findings underscore the importance of taking into …
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