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The preponderance of minimal second language acquisition by immigrants worldwide is striking. This paper proposes a theoretical model, which analyzes the underlying forces that contribute to this outcome of minimal secondary language acquisition by immigrants in such diverse immigrant-receiving...
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Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that many immigrants fail to integrate economically. Research shows that the option to naturalize has considerable economic benefits for eligible immigrants, even in countries with a tradition of restrictive policies. First-generation...
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across countries in the entry wage gap and the speed of wage assimilation over time. Wage assimilation is affected by year of … entry, immigrant skill, ethnicity, and gender. Policies that facilitate assimilation of immigrant workers provide support …
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capital approach and allows for detecting discrimination as well as assimilation processes. The empirical results im-ply that … Europe. Somewhat disappointing, the assimilation hypothesis was clearly rejected for all migrants with again the exception …
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assimilation of language minorities into the city majority language. We show that official minority members (i.e. francophones in …, the language composition of cities is shown to be an important determinant of assimilation both for allophones and for … official minorities. Finally, we show that assimilation into French in French-majority cities is lower than assimilation into …
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assimilation of language minorities into the city majority language. We show that official minority members (i.e. francophones in …, the language composition of cities is shown to be an important determinant of assimilation both for allophones and for … official minorities. Finally, we show that assimilation into French in French-majority cities is lower than assimilation into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399587
assimilation of language minorities into the city majority language. We show that official minority members (i.e. francophones in …, the language composition of cities is shown to be an important determinant of assimilation both for allophones and for … official minorities. Finally, we show that assimilation into French in French-majority cities is lower than assimilation into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009403393
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 in particular labor market...
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This research determines the economic assimilation experience of Mexican immigrants and Chinese immigrants towards … the impact of assimilation on the level of earnings for these immigrants. Multiple regression and simulation techniques … convergence for Chinese immigrants toward the native level and they do show rapid economic assimilation in the United States …
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immigration from new-EU-12 countries. Second, the lack of employment assimilation in terms of job quality for workers from the new …The 2004 and 2007 EU enlargement has led to a significant increase in the immigration flow to Spain. Individuals from …
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