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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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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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Immigrants and entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus; Wang, Chunbei - In: IZA World of Labor (2019)
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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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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Legalizing undocumented immigrants
Bansak, Cynthia - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
Addressing unauthorized immigration is controversial. Countries have adopted a variety of legalization programs …
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Integrating refugees into labor markets
Bevelander, Pieter - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
For the first time since the Second World War, the total number of refugees amounts to more than 50 million people. Only a minority of these refugees seek asylum, and even fewer resettle in developed countries. At the same time, politicians, the media, and the public are worried about a lack of...
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The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants: A survey of the literature for receiving countries
Nathan, Max - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014), pp. 1-20
In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call "the...
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Immigration status and property crime: An application of estimators for underreported outcomes
Papadopoulos, Georgios - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014), pp. 1-30
This paper studies the individual-level relationship between immigration and property crime in England and Wales using …, the estimates across all model specifications, although imprecise, indicate that immigration status and property crime are … negatively associated. We finally find that the estimated relationship between immigration status and property crime differs …
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