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worries. While individuals are strongly pulled into selfemployment if it offers higher earnings, immigrants are additionally … pushed into selfemployment when they feel discriminated. Married immigrants are more likely to go into selfemployment, but … less likely when they have young children. Immigrants living with foreign passports in ethnic households are more likely …
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This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to … immigrants, Turks are twice as likely to choose self-employment as any other immigrant group. The age-earnings profiles of self … the self-employed Greeks, Italians, Spaniards, ex- Yugoslavs, Polish or other East Europeans, including those immigrants …
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Recent studies have shown that there are significant earnings differentials between immigrants and natives in …-economic endowments or to discrimination. We use the well-known econometric technique, developed by Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973), to … determine the extent of discrimination. As data on earnings are available only for employed, we adopt a two-stage Heckman …
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traits. Such prejudice does not necessarily lead to wage discrimination. Whether or not it does depends on the nature of the … Project (RUMiC) to explore whether native-place wage discrimination affects migrant workers in China's urban labor markets. We … analyze the question of wage discrimination among migrants by estimating wage equations for men and women, controlling for …
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Since ethnic clustering is common in Germany, a better understanding of its effects on the integration of immigrants … is benefi cial or detrimental for immigrants’ integration. In this paper, the effect of residential clustering on the … labour market outcome of first-generation immigrants in Germany is analysed empirically. It, thus, contributes to the …
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Belgium suggest significant wage discrimination against women and (to a lesser extent) against immigrants. We find no evidence … for double discrimination against female immigrants. Institutional factors such as firm-level collective bargaining and …This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination …
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immigrants. We find no evidence for double discrimination against female immigrants. Institutional factors such as firm …This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination … against immigrants. We build on an identification strategy proposed by Bartolucci (Ind Labor Relat Rev 67(4):1166-1202, 2014 …
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high-skill workers. In this paper we show that a model of employer taste-based discrimination in a labor market … workers. We use the model to undertake a structural decomposition and conclude that discrimination resulting from employer …
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regulatory conditions on immigrant-native gaps across four outcomes; unemployment, monthly earnings, underemployment, and … precarious contracts. The empirical results suggest that immigrant-native gaps are larger in countries with more immigrants … immigrants' chances of holding temporary contracts. A stricter regulation of temporary contracts increases immigrants' risk of …
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Immigrants are more likely to have conationals as colleagues, however the consequences of such workplace segregation is … points six or more years after the start of the first job, an effect not observed for non-conational immigrants, with no …
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