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Gender and Ethnicity-Married Immigrants in Britain

Dustmann, Christian - 2013

In this paper we investigate the economic activity of married or cohabiting female immigrants in Britain. We distinguish between two immigrant groups: foreign-born females who belong to an ethnic-minority group and their husbands, and foreign-born white females and their husbands. We compare...

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Does over-education raise productivity and wages equally? : the moderating role of workers' origin and immigrants' background

Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022

We provide first evidence of the impact of over-education, among natives and immigrants, on firm-level productivity and wages. We use Belgian linked panel data and rely on the methodology from Hellerstein et al. (1999) to estimate ORU (over-, required, and under-education) equations aggregated...

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Musn't grumble : immigration, health and health service use in the UK and Germany

Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2013

A rise in population caused by increased immigration, is sometimes accompanied by concerns that the increase in … immigrants. The UK and Germany have experienced significant increases in immigration in recent years. This study uses … native-born sample populations make little difference to these broad findings. -- Immigration ; Health ; Health Service …

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From immigration to integration : four essays on economic aspects of the transition process

Geis, Wido - 2011

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How Different are Immigrants? A Cross-Country and Cross-Survey Analysis of Educational Achievement

Schnepf, Sylke V. - 2021

This paper examines differences in educational achievement between immigrants and natives in ten countries with a high population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the USA. The first step of the analysis shows...

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Immigrant Job Search in the UK : Evidence from Panel Data

Frijters, Paul; Shields, Michael A.; Price, Stephen Wheatley - 2021

Most immigrant groups experience higher rates of unemployment than the host countries native population, but it is as yet unclear whether differences in job search behaviour, or its success, can help explain this gap. In this paper, we investigate how the job search methods of unemployed...

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