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all, of this immigrant advantage. -- Immigration ; integration ; second generation ; Germany ; PISA …
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weekly earnings of male university-educated immigrants in all three countries concomitant with skilled immigration policy … immigrants. Given that there is increasingly little to distinguish the skilled immigration policies of these countries, we …
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differences in the structure of migrants to four countries – namely, France, Germany, the UK and the US – which receive a … of distance, both geographical and cultural, immigration policies and migrant networks. Differentiating immigrants by … of migrants to the different destination countries. Focusing on migration between the four countries in our data set, we …
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. (4) Within a sending country, Australia attracts less total but higher-skill migrants than does the United States. This … immigration gains are greater from immigrating to United States. (5) The estimated coefficients determining migration flows to … composition of employment migrants. There is no evidence that the differences in the selection mechanism used to screen employment …
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In this paper, we examine the case of Vietnam as an example of this phenomenon. In Vietnam, the World Bank Indicators show a self-employment rate of 60% among men in 2008, whereas the United States rate is less than 15%. This wide gap between the two countries even greater than that between...
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The most commonly used model of labor market incorporation among immigrants in the United States analyzes their earnings largely as a function of human capital variables such as education, language competence, age, length of residence and employment experience in the receiving country. However,...
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This paper compares the educational performance of the children of immigrants to the children in their parents' home countries. I utilize the 2003 and 2006 PISA internationally standardized test scores for Italian, Polish, Turkish, former Yugoslavian, and former Soviet origin youth attending...
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using multiple definitions. While significant research effort has gone into understanding the economic impact of immigration …
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migrants who arrive through family reunification are less likely to work full-time; refugees are also less self-employed. Those …
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migrants who arrive through family reunification are less likely to work full-time; refugees are also less self-employed. Those …
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