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Most previously used measures of immigrant labor market assimilation will be biased if there is non-random emigration … of immigrants. We use longitudinal data on immigration to Sweden 1970-1990 to examine the extent and pattern of immigrant … emigration and its consequences for measures of assimilation. Large fractions of the immigrants leave the host country shortly …
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The cultural assimilation of immigrants into the host society is often equated with prospects for economic success …, with religion seen as a potential barrier. We investigate the role of ethnic enclaves and churches for the assimilation of …. The former sought the preservation of Danish culture and tradition, while the latter encouraged assimilation. We use data …
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capital approach and allows for detecting discrimination as well as assimilation processes. The empirical results im-ply that … Europe. Somewhat disappointing, the assimilation hypothesis was clearly rejected for all migrants with again the exception …
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Most previously used measures of immigrant labor market assimilation will be biased if there is non-random emigration … of immigrants. We use longitudinal data on immigration to Sweden 1970-1990 to examine the extent and pattern of immigrant … emigration and its consequences for measures of assimilation. Large fractions of the immigrants leave the host country shortly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321782
This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study labor market assimilation of self …
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A history of the New Zealand immigration experience and policy is reviewed in this paper. Data from the 1981 and 1996 …
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data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased in Sweden in the 1990?s …
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The labor market "quality" of immigrants is a subject of debate among immigration researchers, and a major public … in the immigration flows from different countries, sampling error, and the effects of emigration – is fundamentally …
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This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to analyze the labor market experience of high-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high-skilled occupations than natives, but the gap between the two...
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well as from Turkey are steeper than the respective frontier of natives, which supports the assimilation hypothesis. No … assimilation is found for migrants from the European Union and from the former Yugoslavia. …
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