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Mind the Gap: What Gap? A Detailed Picture of the Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap in the UK using Longitudinal Data between 1978 and 2006

Lemos, Sara - Department of Economics, Leicester University - 2011

primarily rewards individual characteristics other than immigration status. We also found that the lowest paid immigrants, whom … proportionately larger non-white and lower paid white immigration. …

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Mind the Gap: A Detailed Picture of the Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap in the UK Using Longitudinal Data Between 1978 and 2006

Lemos, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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Who Gets a Swiss Passport? A Natural Experiment in Immigrant Discrimination

Hainmueller, Jens; Hangartner, Dominik - 2014

We study discrimination against immigrants using micro-level data from Switzerland, where, until recently, some municipalities used referendums to decide on the citizenship applications of foreign residents. We show that naturalization decisions vary dramatically with immigrants' attributes,...

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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 … the labor market. We find evidence to suggest that employers are more likely to be pro-immigration than employees …

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Age at Immigrant Arrival and Career Mobility : Evidence from Vietnamese Refugee Migration and the Amerasian Homecoming Act

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Smith, Kendall E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study the long-run career mobility of young immigrants, mostly refugees, from Vietnam who moved to the United States during 1989-1995. This third and final migration wave of young Vietnamese immigrants was sparked by unexpected events that culminated in the Amerasian Homecoming Act....

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From guests to hosts: a first whole picture of immigrant-native wage differentials in Spain

Muñoz de Bustillo, Rafael; Carrera, Miguel; Antón, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This article analyses the immigrant-native wage differentials in Spain, which only recently has become a host country. The paper exploits the Earnings Structure Survey 2006, which is the first nationally representative sample of both foreigner and Spaniard employees. Using the Machado-Mata...

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IMMIGRATION AND DISCRIMINATION IN A FORMER EMIGRANT COUNTRY: THE CASE OF SPAIN

Antón, José-Ignacio; Bustillo, Rafael Muñoz de - International Network for Economic Research - INFER - 2009

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How are you doing in your grandpa’s country? Labour market performance of Latin American immigrants in Spain.

Antón, José-Ignacio; Carrera, Miguel; Muñoz de … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper analyses wage differentials between local and foreign workers from Latin America and the Caribbean in Spain, which was traditionally a country of emigrants, being precisely Hispanic America the main host region of Spanish migrants during the 19th and 20th centuries. In addition, we...

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Immigrant economic assimilation: Evidence from UK longitudinal data between 1978 and 2006

Lemos, Sara - In: Labour Economics 24 (2013) C, pp. 339-353

Using the underexplored, sizeable and long Lifetime Labour Market Database (LLMDB) we estimate the immigrant–native earnings gap at entry and over time for the UK between 1978 and 2006. That is, we attempt to separately estimate cohort and assimilation effects. We also estimate the associated...

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Labor market performance of Latin American and Caribbean immigrants in Spain

Antón, José Ignacio; Bustillo, Rafael Muñoz de; … - In: Journal of Applied Economics XIII (2010) November, pp. 233-261

This paper analyzes the wage differentials in Spain between local and foreign employees from Latin America and the Caribbean. It also explores the earnings gap between Latin American employees and other groups of foreign workers from both developing and developed countries. The study is based on...

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