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immigrants' reason for immigration. Immigrants who remain outside of employment and/or education is mostly to be found among … employment and/or education, the education- and labor-immigrants and Nordic immigrants show higher tendency to maintain such … that immigrants who do not move between labor market regions show stronger tendency to remain in employment and …
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We study the regional representation of foreign workers from each EU-27 country in German regions. For most of the German neighboring countries, we find that distance significantly matters for the workplace location in Germany. The striking exception is Poland. For non-neighboring countries,...
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-enlargements. The aim of the paper is to investigate the regional settlement and migration patterns of immigrants mostly recognized by … refugees and their families towards labour immigrants and their families, where family unifications with labour immigrants … Norway after immigration, while immigrants from other Nordic countries and immigrants that immigrate for education show less …
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Stylized facts show that migrants more often face overqualified employment than natives. As shown by previous research …-skill-mismatch as long as they receive a compensation for working in overqualified employment. This paper therefore analyzes the impact … of the willingness to accept overqualified employment on the reservation wage of prospective medium and highly skilled …
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About 1.4 million refugees and irregular migrants arrived in Europe in 2015 and 2016. We model how refugees and irregular migrants are self-selected. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World Polls, we provide the first large-scale evidence on...
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We investigate the difference in homeownership rate between natives and immigrants as well as its evolution in France …. stayers), we show that returns of characteristics change in favor of immigrants consistently with better integration and this … is particularly true for South Europeans. Moreover, for immigrants, entries on the territory have a large negative effect …
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There is a long-held belief that inequality is a major determinant of violent crime, particularly homicides. Some previous studies suggest that these results hold in the short term only. This could result from measurement error in income inequality. This study addresses the issue of measurement...
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Economic debate about the consequences of immigration in Germany has largely focused on the wage effects for natives at an aggregate level. Especially the role of imperfect substitutability of migrants and natives gained importance. A new topic is to focus on the firm level by estimating...
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countries, it is observed that the coefficients effect dominates. It can therefore be concluded, that immigrants are generally …" is found for immigrants from non-EU states in Eastern Europe. To analyse the importance of segregation into sectors, we …
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Using longitudinal employment register data this study analyzes the development of outcomes of male foreign workers …-paying industries and occupations. Furthermore, employment stability contributes to the wage convergence as well as changes to German …
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