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We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate … immigrants from that country. By hiring immigrants, a firm may access foreign knowledge and networks needed to overcome …, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We …
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We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate … immigrants from that country. By hiring immigrants, a firm may access foreign knowledge and networks needed to overcome …, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012654461
continuum of tasks in each sector and we augment it to include immigrants with heterogeneous productivity in tasks. We use this … pushed natives toward more communication-intensive tasks while it has pushed immigrants away from them. …
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a gravity model for neighborhoods to assess the role of ethnicity in intra-urban residential relocations. Migration …
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This paper analyzes the Hebrew language proficiency, probability of employment, and labor market earnings of immigrants … features of the analysis include the study of long-duration immigrants (3 to 20 years), and analyses for: males and females … and non-Jewish immigrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU), in addition to standard immigration, demographic, and human …
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The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied … incidence, wage effects and state dependence in overeducation among natives and immigrants. In line with previous research we … find a higher incidence and a lower return to overeducation among immigrants indicating that immigrants lose more from …
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the language proficiency of immigrants by exploiting the fact that the initial placement of guest-workers after WWII was … several data sets, we find a small but robust and significant negative effect of ethnic concentration on immigrants' language … presence of the effect. Immigrants with high learning costs are inclined to move to ethnic enclaves, so that the share of …
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This paper examines the chances for immigrants on the European job market. The data represents a one percent sample of … well as the (country-specific) human capital, language skills and the immigrants’ participation in education. …
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occupational status and, in particular, annual income of immigrants. We also find that bridging ties with Germans lead to higher …
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This paper examines differences in religious behaviors of the native born and immigrants in Europe, measured as self … average, religiosity of immigrants is higher than that of the native born, even among those without a religious affiliation …, income, marital status, and notably denominations, partly account for the overall differences. Religiosity of immigrants …
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