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Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation: An Analysis for Germany

Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...

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Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation – An Analysis for Germany

Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K. - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2010

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devenir des immigrés en France. Barrières et inégalités.

Safi, Mirna - Sciences Po - 2007

Cette thèse de doctorat s’intéresse au processus d’intégration des immigrés en exploitant des données issues des recensements, qui réunissent à la fois la richesse de la période d’observation (1968-1999) et des groupes d’immigrés (environ une dizaine), et confronte les analyses...

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The Labour Market Adjustment of Immigrants in New Zealand

Stillman, Steven; Maré, David C - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2009

This paper uses data from the 1997–2007 New Zealand Income Survey to examine the economic performance of immigrants in New Zealand. Specifically, we use a synthetic cohort approach to examine how employment rates, hourly wages, annual income and occupations for immigrants compare to those for...

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Economic and Cultural Gaps among Foreign-born Minorities in Spain

de la Rica, Sara; Ortega, Francesc - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper compares the economic and cultural gaps of the largest foreign-born ethnic minorities in Spain: Latinos, Eastern Europeans, Moroccans and individuals from Other Muslim countries. We focus on several outcomes: the gender education gap, early marriage, inter-ethnic marriage, fertility,...

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Immigration: The New Zealand Experience

Winkelmann, Rainer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

A history of the New Zealand immigration experience and policy is reviewed in this paper. Data from the 1981 and 1996 …

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How Different are Wages from Wage Potentials? - Analyzing the earnings disadvantage of immigrants in Germany

Lang, Guenter - Institut für Volkswirschaftlehre, Fakultät für … - 2004

well as from Turkey are steeper than the respective frontier of natives, which supports the assimilation hypothesis. No … assimilation is found for migrants from the European Union and from the former Yugoslavia. …

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The Social Assimilation of Immigrants

de Palo, Domenico; Faini, Riccardo; Venturini, Alessandra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

result in highly restrictive immigration policies. Promoting integration of migrants into the host country would go a long … economic assimilation of immigrants, somewhat less attention has been devoted to other - and equally crucial - dimensions of … migrants’ integration, namely the process of social assimilation. The aim of this paper is to take a close look at migrants …

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Employment Assimilation of Immigrants in the Netherlands

Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

Using two Dutch labour force surveys, employment assimilation of immigrants is examined. We observe marked differences …

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Labor market assimilation of immigrants in Spain: employment at the expense of bad job-matches?

Fernández, Cristina; Ortega, Carolina - In: Spanish Economic Review 10 (2008) 2, pp. 83-107

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