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This paper studies the occupational selection among generations of immigrants in the United States and links their choices to the occupational wage distribution in their country of origin. The empirical results suggest that individuals are more likely to take up an occupation in the US that was...
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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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This paper contributes to the analysis of the integration of immigrants in the Canadian labour market by focusing in two relatively new dimensions. We combine the large samples of the restricted version of the Canadian Census (1991-2006) with both a new measure of linguistic proximity of the...
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This study is the first empirical analysis to identify the causal effect of a separate preparatory language learning class on the academic success of newly immigrated primary school-aged children in comparison to their direct integration into regular classrooms. Employing unique administrative...
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migrants from low‐income source countries had declining employment rates and increasing disability program participation over … the lifecycle. Refugees and family migrants assimilated during the initial period upon arrival, but labor market … convergence halted after a decade and was accompanied by rising social insurance rates. For the children of labor migrants of the …
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European labour immigrants to Norway for a period of up to eight years after entry. We find that the migrants were particularly … after the crisis. Although we find that negative labour demand shocks raise the probability of return migration, the … majority of the labour migrants directly affected by the downturn stayed in Norway and claimed unemployment insurance benefits. …
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during 1990 - 2002. I use this natural experiment to study labor market assimilation of migrants and their effect on the … female immigrants faced significant wage and employment gaps upon arrival, and their assimilation was slow. Using an IV … after about ten years after the peak of migration wave. …
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Anti-immigrant sentiment is frequently motivated by the idea that migrants are a threat to the host country's culture … (Rapoport et al., 2020). We contribute to the discussion by investigating whether migrants adapt their social preferences (SPs … migrants' preferences strongly correlate with their host population's SPs and provide some evidence of a causal relationship. …
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