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Improving well-being in New Zealand through migration

Carey, David - 2019

New Zealand’s immigration system aims to enhance well-being by promoting economic development, reuniting families and meeting humanitarian objectives. Immigration is high and residence admissions are focused on the high skilled to enhance economic outcomes. Empirical evidence suggests that...

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Do Employers Support Immigration?

Tamura, Yuji - 2010

This association study examines whether or not employers are more likely to support immigration than employees, using Round 1 of the European Social Survey. We focus on the labor-market impact of immigration in the host country because it is likely to affect employers and employees differently....

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Immigrant self-employment in turbulent times : a decade with refugee crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic

Hammarstedt, Mats; Skedinger, Per - 2024

We examine immigrant self-employment in Sweden during 2011-2021 - a turbulent decade with a large influx of refugees into the country and the outbreak of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Four outcome variables are investigated: the probability of self-employment, the probability of entry into and...

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Chapter 11. High-Skilled Immigration in a Globalized Labor Market

McDonald, James Ted; Worswick, Christopher - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 537-583). 2015

temporary migrants already in the country as sources of permanent immigration. An overview of key results in the literature on …

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The Effectiveness of European Union Interventions into the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and Improvement of Labor Market Outcomes for Racial and Ethnic Minorities in Europea...

Brooks, Tequila J. - 2016

This paper analyzes the efficacy of EU interventions into the elimination of racial discrimination and improvement of labor market outcomes for racial and ethnic minorities in the EU, including the Race Equality Directive of 2000, soft law measures such as the Lisbon Strategy, the European...

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Immigration: the European experience

Dustmann, Christian; Frattini, Tommaso - 2011

This paper first presents a brief historical overview of immigration in Europe. We then provide (and distinguishing between EU and non-EU immigrants) a comprehensive analysis of the skill structures of immigrants and their labor market integration in the different European countries, their...

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What active labour market programmes work for immigrants in Europe? : a meta-analysis of the evaluation literature

Butschek, Sebastian; Walter, Thomas - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-18

A growing body of programme evaluation literature recognises immigrants as a disadvantaged group in European labour markets and investigates the employment effects of Active Labour Market Programmes (ALMPs) on this subgroup. So far, however, there is no systematic review establishing which ALMPs...

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What explains immigrant-native gaps in European labor markets : the role of institutions

Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin; Kureková, Lucia Mýtna - 2015

The role of institutions in immigrant integration remains underexplored in spite of its essential significance for integration policies. This paper adopts the Varieties of Capitalism framework to study the institutional determinants of Immigrant-Native gaps in host labor markets. Using the EU...

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Jobcenters' strategies to promoting the inclusion of immigrant and native job seekers : a comparative analysis based on PASS survey data

Lehweß-Litzmann, René; Söhn, Janina - In: Journal for labour market research 56 (2022) 1, pp. 1-24

This paper comparatively analyzes strategies of German Jobcenters to bring native and immigrant job seekers into employment. It focuses on clients who receive means-tested basic income for the unemployed, based on data from the Panel Study Labour Market and Social Security (PASS) from year 2015...

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Qualification structure, over- and underqualification of the foreign born in Austria and the EU

Huber, Peter; Nowotny, Klaus; Bock-Schappelwein, Julia - 2010

This project focuses on comparing the qualification structure of migrants residing in Austria as well as their over … slightly in the last years. Austria is, however, characterised by a high share of medium skilled migrants and a low share of … highly skilled migrants. In addition among the pool of migrants in the EU from a given country, Austria generally selects the …

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