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The payoff to schooling among the foreign born in the US is only around one-half of the payoff for the native born. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The paper uses the Over-education/ Required...
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This paper provides an evaluation of the status of migrant workers in Germany amidst the global financial crisis … migrants in most of the major receiving states of the EU, the status of the predominantly low-skilled sector-employed migrant … workers in Germany, where primarily the skilled-workforce concentrated industries of high-value products is affected, has …
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This volume was prepared by Susanne Link during her stay at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and the Department of Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute of Economic Research. It was accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Departure of the University of Munich in...
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Despite the bulk of international migrants being youth, little is known about the factors driving young people … youth to migrate abroad as well as the probability that they turn this aspiration into a more concrete plan over the … and employed youth. Results also show that material deprivation may represent a significant push factor behind youth …
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In Germany, young people are no worse off than adults in the labor market, while in southern and eastern European … countries, they fare three to four times worse. In Anglo-Saxon countries, both youth and adults fare better than elsewhere, but …
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deliver more informed and culturally responsive career development and guidance to newcomer and refugee youth. …
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We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate substantially less than natives in the labor market. However, trading with a foreign country is expected to increase the demand for immigrants from that country. By hiring...
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