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points. The marginal effects are larger for asylum seekers who speak a language that is linguistically close to the one in …
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percentage points. The marginal effects are larger for asylum seekers who speak a language that is linguistically close to the …
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percentage points. The marginal effects are larger for asylum seekers who speak a language that is linguistically close to the …
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We consider a tax-funded policy of admitting and integrating asylum seekers in a country in which the incomes of the native inhabitants are differentiated; for the sake of simplicity, we assume that there are just two groups of native inhabitants: high-income natives and low-income natives. As a...
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We draw a distinction between the social integration and economic assimilation of migrants, and study an interaction … optimal to acquire a relatively limited quantity of human capital; with fellow migrants constituting his only comparison group …
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Quite often, migrants appear to exert little effort to absorb the mainstream culture and to learn the language of their … migrants’ comparing themselves more with the richer natives and less with fellow migrants, then the effort extended to … assimilate will be muted. -- Migrants’ behavior ; The effort to assimilate ; Income gains ; Social proximity ; Interpersonal …
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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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be expected to be less intense for non-economic migrants, such as refugees, tied movers and ideological migrants, and for …This paper explores the theoretical issues and the empirical literature regarding the selectivity of migrants. Although … theoretical analysis indicates a tendency toward the favorable self-selection (supply) of migrants for labor market success. The …
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We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate … immigrants from that country. By hiring immigrants, a firm may access foreign knowledge and networks needed to overcome …, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We …
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We draw a distinction between the social integration and economic assimilation of migrants, and study an interaction … optimal to acquire a relatively limited quantity of human capital; with fellow migrants constituting his only comparison group …
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