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Understanding the role of immigrants' legal status : evidence from policy experiments

Fasani, Francesco - 2014

Programs aimed at reducing the presence of unauthorised immigrants are often at the core of the migration policy debate in host countries. In recent years, a growing body of empirical literature has attempted to understand the effect of lacking legal status on immigrants' outcomes and behaviour....

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Receiving countries' perspectives : the case of Sweden

Gerdes, Christer; Wadensjö, Eskil - 2014

Sweden has made its labour market more open for labour immigration since the mid1990s: becoming member of the common labour market of EES/EU in 1994, no transitional rules introduced at the enlargement of European Union in 2004 and 2007, and opening up for labour migration from non-EES/EU...

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Immigration, occupational choice and public employment

Marchiori, Luca; Pieretti, Patrice; Zou, Benteng - 2014

This paper investigates the theoretical effects of immigration in an occupational choice model with three sectors: a low-skilled, a high-skilled and a public sector. The originality of our approach is to consider (i) intersectoral mobility of labor and (ii) public employment. We highlight the...

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Examining the relationships between labour market mismatches, earnings and job satisfaction among immigrant graduates in Europe

McGuinness, Séamus; Byrne, Delma - 2014

This paper uses graduate survey data and econometric methods to estimate the incidence and wage/job satisfaction effects of over-education and overskilling among immigrants graduating from EU 15 based universities in 2005. Female immigrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a...

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Understanding the role of immigrants' legal status : evidence from policy experiments

Fasani, Francesco - 2014

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Educational attainment and labor market performance : an analysis of immigrants in France

Akgüç, Mehtap; Ferrer, Ana M. - 2015

Using a recent survey of immigrants to France, we provide a detailed analysis of the educational attainment and labor market performance of various sub-population groups in France. Our results indicate that immigrants to France are less educated than the native born and that these differences...

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Job mobility as a new explanation for the immigrant-native wage gap : a longitudinal analysis for the German labor market

Brenzel, Hanna; Reichelt, Malte - 2015

Theoretically, wage gaps between migrants and natives can be explained by human capital theory through either …, an unexplained difference remains. We assume that differences in the employment trajectories of migrants and natives … job mobility of migrants and natives in Germany and distinguish among voluntary, involuntary, internal and other job …

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Which factors drive the skill-mix of migrants in the long-run?

Beerli, Andreas; Indergand, Ronald - 2014

A pervasive, yet little acknowledged feature of international migration to developed countries is that newly arriving immigrants are increasingly highly skilled since the 1980s. This paper analyses the determinants of changes in the skill composition of immigrants using a framework suggested by...

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Which factors drive the skill-mix of migrants in the long-run?

Beerli, Andreas; Indergand, Ronald - 2014 - 1st December 2014

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What explains immigrant-native gaps in European labor markets : the role of institutions

Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin; Kureková, Lucia Mýtna - 2015

The role of institutions in immigrant integration remains underexplored in spite of its essential significance for integration policies. This paper adopts the Varieties of Capitalism framework to study the institutional determinants of Immigrant-Native gaps in host labor markets. Using the EU...

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