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Migration and Integration of Immigrants in Denmark

Roseveare, Deborah - 2004

Immigration could offer one way for Denmark to expand its labour supply, thereby lowering the dependency ratio, at least for some time, and easing the task of ensuring fiscal sustainability. However, these beneficial effects are obtained only if immigrants are in work. Yet a significant...

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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence

Constant, Amelie - 2017

The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...

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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence

Constant, Amelie - 2017

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Data sources on migrants' labour market and education integration in Austria

Huber, Peter; Fink, Marian; Horvath, Gerard Thomas - 2020

As part of a larger research project, we survey existing data sets and research results on immigrants' integration success in Austria focusing on educational and labour market outcomes. We consider different registers as well as survey data available to researchers on a regular basis and compare...

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Social Integration of Older Immigrants in 21st Century America

Wilmoth, Janet - 2011

There are various reasons for the burgeoning interest in detailed research into the determinants of social well-being among older immigrants in this country. As a result of shifting federal government policies, the total volume of immigrants has increased significantly, the countries from which...

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Chapter 7. Immigrants and Demography : Marriage, Divorce, and Fertility

Adserà, Alícia; Ferrer, Ana - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 315-374). 2015

formation. Marriage propensities are embedded in the cultural background of migrants and, hence, the capacity to form and …

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The economic determinants of ethnic assimilation

Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2006

Expanding on the concept of ethnic human capital, the paper distinguishes between cultural assimilation compatible with persistent ethnic groups and assimilation through intermarriage and other mechanisms that blur distinctions and lead to the disappearance of ethnic identities. Economic...

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Cultural integration in Germany

Constant, Amelie; Nottmeyer, Olga; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

. These indicators are also presented. All of these indicators are depicted in comparison between natives and immigrants …

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Economic discrimination and cultural differences as barriers to migrant integration : is reverse causality symmetric?

Kohler, Pierre - 2012

This paper examines the endogenous relationship between the economic and cultural integration of migrants in … preventing the successful integration of migrants or does the root of integration failures lie in unequal economic opportunities … and discrimination? How legitimate are claims arguing migrants are economically discriminated because they don't integrate …

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Social involvement and level of household income among immigrants : new evidence from the Israeli experience

Arbel, Yuval; Tobol, Yossi; Siniver, Erez - 2012

Previous studies of immigrant populations suggest that ceteris paribus (after controlling for the number of years in the receiving country and other socio-demographic variables), the level of income is strongly and positively correlated with fluency in the local language. Based on a phone survey...

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