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The performance of immigrants in the German labor market
Beyer, Robert - 2017
This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...
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Pay and unemployment determinants of migration flows in the European Union
Afonso, António; Alves, José; Beck, Krzysztof - 2022
We analyze the migration drivers within the European Union countries. For a set of 23 EU countries over the 1995-2019 period, we use Bayesian Model Averaging and quantile regression to assess notably the relevance of unemployment and earnings. We find that the existence of a common border...
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Immigration und Arbeitsmarkt : eine ökonomische Perspektive
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998
Based on the current European discussion about immigration policy, this paper gives an overview of central economic consequences of immigration for a host country's labor market. The most important theoretical arguments are presented and evaluated against the available empirical evidence. The...
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What active labour market programmes work for immigrants in Europe? : A meta-analysis of the evaluation literature
Butschek, Sebastian; Walter, Thomas - 2013
A growing body of programme evaluation literature recognises immigrants as a disadvantaged group on European labour markets and investigates the employment effects of Active Labour Market Pro-grammes (ALMPs) on this subgroup. Using a meta-analysis, we condense 93 estimates from 33 empir-ical...
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Return versus onward migration : go back or move on?
Bijwaard, Govert; Wahba, Jackline - 2022
This paper examines the impact of unemployment on out-migration by distinguishing between return and onward migration and controlling for total earnings. We use Timing-of-Events models and control for the endogeneity of total earnings, unemployment and out-migration using administrative data...
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Are immigrants competing with natives in the Italian labour market? : the employment effect
Venturini, Alessandra; Villosio, Claudia - 2002
Gavosto, Venturini, Villosio (1999) find that the impact of foreign workers on the wage of natives was positive. Such a result was partly to be expected, and therefore the effect of immigrants on native employment is analyzed here. Two aspects of the unemployment experience are taken into...
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The share of foreigners in one's occupation and attitudes towards foreigners
Pecoraro, Marco; Ruedin, Didier - 2017
This paper examines the relationship between attitudes towards foreigners and the share of foreigners at the occupational level. Using a question on equal opportunities for foreigners from the Swiss House-hold Panel, ordered probit regressions with standard controls show that: (a) there is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011749353
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Young FSU migrants in Germany : educational attainment and early labor market outcomes
Flake, Regina - 2013
Sowjetunion, die zwischen 1989 und 1994 nach Deutschland eingewandert sind. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Migranten einen geringeren …Diese Studie analysiert den Bildungserfolg und die Arbeitsmarktintegration von jungen Migranten aus der ehemaligen … Bildungserfolg als Einheimische haben. Innerhalb der Gruppe der Migranten aus der ehemaligen Sowjetunion sind jüdische Migranten …
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Do labour market conditions shape immigrant-native gaps in employment outcomes? : a comparison of 19 European countries
Markaki, Yvonni - 2014
This article draws from different theoretical and empirical literatures to analyse the role of socioeconomic and regulatory conditions on immigrant-native gaps across four outcomes; unemployment, monthly earnings, underemployment, and precarious contracts. The empirical results suggest that...
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Immigrants and unemployment in the European Community : from the eyes of natives
Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002
This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the foreigners in specific regions. This paper, instead, utilizes...
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