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This paper assesses how new immigrants to Spain fare in the country's labor market, evaluating the conditions under … Labor Force Survey data from 2000 through 2011, we find that immigrants who arrived before the 2008 recession had little … skyrocketed. Immigrants' individual characteristics had a limited effect on their employment trajectories. Although many …
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influence of reading performance on math performance, highlighting the importance of early language support for immigrants for …
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This paper analyses the intergenerational income mobility for natives and immigrants in Switzerland. An IV approach … subgroups of the Swiss population shows strong differences between Swiss and immigrants. Compared to natives, immigrants are … for natives is found to be similar for all income quantiles. Among immigrants, mobility is higher at the lower as well as …
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There has been a considerable amount of work focusing on job satisfaction and sex, generally finding that women are more satisfied than men despite having objectively worse job conditions. But there is little evidence on whether job satisfaction differs by race or ethnicity. We use data from the...
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Probit analysis to a sample of over 37,900 employed males. We focus on the occupational attainment of immigrants and the …
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influence of reading performance on math performance, highlighting the importance of early language support for immigrants for …
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This paper takes advantage of the Taiwan Assessment of Student Achievement data set to empirically evaluate whether the test score differentials between pupils with immigrant and native mothers are substantial across subjects, grades and years. Our results show that there exist test score...
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We investigate the difference in homeownership rates between natives and first-generation immigrants in France, and how … rates for immigrants. Although entrants have on average better education than people staying in the territory for the entire … for stayers. Leavers have a positive effect on the evolution of homeownership rates for immigrants because they have a low …
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immigrants to the United States by using the pooled files of the American Community Survey (2005-09). We consider the colonial … immigrants from countries with a high concentration of Protestant missionaries tend to exhibit higher levels of English …
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Self‐employment constitutes a vital part of the economy since entrepreneurs can provide not only employment for themselves but also for others. The link between self‐employment and immigration is, however, complex since self‐employment can be viewed as both a haven from the paid labour...
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