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The immigrant-native wage gap in Germany revisited

Ingwersen, Kai; Thomsen, Stephan L. - In: The Journal of Economic Inequality 19 (2021) 4, pp. 825-854

This study provides new evidence on the levels of economic integration experienced by foreigners and naturalised immigrants relative to native Germans from 1994 to 2015. We decompose the wage gap using the method for unconditional quantile regression models by employing a regression of the...

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Earnings dynamics of immigrants and natives in Sweden 1985-2016

Friedrich, Benjamin; Laun, Lisa; Meghir, Costas - In: Quantitative Economics 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1803-1847

This paper analyzes earnings inequality and earnings dynamics in Sweden over 1985-2016. The deep recession in the early 1990s marks a historic turning point with a massive increase in earnings inequality and earnings volatility, and the impact of the recession and the recovery from it lasted for...

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Consequences of immigrating during a recession: Evidence from the US Refugee Resettlement program

Mask, Joshua - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 11 (2020) 1, pp. 1-31

Are there long-term labor consequences in migrating to the US during a recession? For most immigrants, credibly estimating this effect is difficult because of selective migration. Some immigrants may not move if economic conditions are not favorable. However, identification is possible for...

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Immigrants and entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

Immigrants are widely perceived to be highly entrepreneurial, contributing to economic growth and innovation, and self-employment is often viewed as a means of enhancing labor market integration and success among immigrants. Accordingly, many countries have established special visas and entry...

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Immigrant assimilation and male labor market inequality

Mason, Patrick L. - In: IZA Journal of Migration 5 (2016) 17, pp. 1-32

-Americans. The immigration process selects black immigrants who have or who would have achieved middle income or higher status in …

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Immigrants and entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus; Wang, Chunbei - In: IZA World of Labor (2019)

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Jobcenters' strategies to promoting the inclusion of immigrant and native job seekers: A comparative analysis based on PASS survey data

Lehweß-Litzmann, René; Söhn, Janina - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 56 (2022) 1, pp. 1-24

the amount of time since immigration. Recent immigrants have the lowest chance of reporting most of the studied measures …

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Utilitarian and Ideological Determinants of Attitudes towards Immigration: Germany Before and After the "Migration Crisis"

Welsch, Heinz - In: Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch 141 (2021) 3, pp. 215-242

Explanations of attitudes towards immigration include those that take a utilitarian perspective, focusing on … immigration's real-world impacts, and others that look at immigration attitudes from the point of view of ideological affiliation … perceptions of immigration impacts are related to people's ideological position through identity-protective cognition, implying an …

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Do refugees impact crime? Causal evidence from large-scale refugee immigration to Germany

Lange, Martin; Sommerfeld, Katrin - In: Labour Economics 86 (2024)

Does large-scale refugee immigration affect crime rates in receiving countries? We address this question based on the …

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Refugees welcome, but not in my backyard? The impact of immigration on right-wing voting : evidence from Germany

Jasny, Johannes; Becker, Tilman - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 11 (2020) 1, pp. 1-20

This article studies whether immigration in voter's neighborhoods is a driving factor of the rise of Germany's major … small-scale immigration data, election data, and a set of socioeconomic factors. Our main finding states that the local … immigration boosted AFD votes but did not affect CDU votes directly. Instead, in regions that perceived immigration indirectly …

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