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Mismatch in the graduate labour market among immigrants and second-generation ethnic minority groups
Byrne, Delma; McGuinness, Seamus - 2009
This paper uses graduate survey data and econometric methods to estimate the incidence and wage effects of over-education and overskilling among immigrant and ethnic minority graduates from UK universities. The paper empirically demonstrates that immigrant and second-generation ethnic minority...
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Born abroad and educated here : examining the impacts of education and skill mismatch among immigrant graduates in Europe
McGuinness, Séamus; Byrne, Delma - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-30
This paper examines the wage and job satisfaction effects of over-education and overskilling among migrants graduating … from EU-15 based universities in 2005. Female migrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a higher … likelihood of overskilling. Newly arrived migrants incurred wage penalties which were exacerbated by additional penalties …
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Overeducation among immigrants in Sweden : incidence, wage effects and state-dependence
Andersson Joona, Pernilla; Gupta, Nabanita Datta; … - 2012
The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied extensively. In the Swedish context this question is of great policy relevance due to the high levels of refugee migration and inflow of tied movers. Using Swedish register data...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403441
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ORU analyses of immigrant earnings in Australia, with international comparisons
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009
This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation/required education/undereducation (ORU) framework (Hartog, 2000) and a decomposition of the native-born/foreign-born differential in the payoff to schooling developed by Chiswick and Miller...
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Why Go to France or Germany, if You Could as Well Go to the UK or the US? Selective Features of Immigration to Four Major OECD Countries
Geis, Wido - 2008
of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all …, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012769704
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A longitudinal study of migration propensities for mixed ethnic unions in England and Wales
Feng, Zhiqiang; Ham, Maarten van; Boyle, Paul J.; Raab, … - 2012
comparison with their co-ethnic peers. We used data from the Longitudinal Study for England and Wales. Our statistical analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009533353
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Economic Diaspora : A Literature Review
Ulrika, Maude - 2021
of the increasing amount of money migrants have been sending back home. The data collected and the estimates fully agree …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013234737
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Incorporating Immigrant Flows into Microsimulation Models
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2008
immigrant earnings and emigration in a quot;closed systemquot; for a given population, the last article of the trilogy explores …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012770780
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The economic situation of first- and second-generation immigrants in France, Germany, and the UK
Algan, Yann; Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht; … - 2009
A central concern about immigration is the integration into the labour market, not only of the first generation, but also of subsequent generations. Little comparative work exists for Europe's largest economies. France, Germany and the UK have all become, perhaps unwittingly, countries with...
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