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Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2006

identity issues. We find that having a higher percentage of same-race friends has a positive effect of white teenagers' test … friends (which is a measure of own identity) and the parent's education that are responsible for the difference in education …

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Acculturation identity and educational attainment

Nekby, Lena; Rödin, Magnus; Özcan, Gülay - 2007

This paper explores the identity formation of a cohort of students with immigrant backgrounds in Sweden and the … consequences of identity for subsequent educational attainment. Unique for this study is that identity is defined according to a … two-dimensional acculturation framework based on both strength of identity to the (ethnic) minority and to the (Swedish …

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Immigrant participation in welfare benefits in the Netherlands

Zorlu, Aslan - 2011

The efficiency of Dutch welfare system is at the heart of debate as long as immigrants are overrepresented in social welfare benefits during the working age period. This paper examines the degree of participation in social assistance, disability and unemployment benefits across ethnic groups...

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Occupational adjustment of immigrants

Zorlu, Aslan - 2011

This paper examines the speed of the occupational adjustment of immigrants using Labour Force Surveys 2004 and 2005 from Statistics Netherlands. The analysis provides new evidence that immigrants start with jobs at the lower levels of skill distribution. Their occupational achievement improves...

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Pitfalls of immigrant inclusion into the European welfare state

Kahanec, Martin; Kim, Anna Myunghee; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011

This paper's main purpose is to gauge immigrants' demand for social assistance and services and identify the key barriers to social and labor market inclusion of immigrants in the European Union. The data from an online primary survey of experts from organizations working on immigrant...

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Will I see you at work? Ethnic workplace segregation in Sweden 1985 - 2002

Åslund, Olof; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2005

We study ethnic workplace segregation in Sweden using linked employer-employee data covering the entire working-age Swedish population during 1985–2002. Segregation is measured as overexposure to a particular group, taking into account the distribution of human capital, industry and geography....

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Earnings among nine ethnic minorities and the Han majority in China's cities

Gustafsson, Björn; Yang, Xiuna - 2016

This paper asks if economic growth and steps towards a market economy have affected earnings gaps between the Han and nine large urban ethnic minorities: Zhuang, Hui, Manchurian, Tujia, Uighur, Miao, Tibetan, Mongol and Korean. It also asks how earnings premiums and earnings penalties have...

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From parent to child : early labor market experiences of second-generation immigrants in the Netherlands

Ours, Jan C. van; Veenman, Justus - 2002

This paper is on the early labor market experiences of second-generation immigrants in the Netherlands. We find that only for employment rates there are some differences a cross ethnic groups. Conditional on having a job there is hardly any difference in wages and other job characteristics...

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Forming of the new ethnic image of Saint Petersburg

Krasnov, Anton I.; Zhitin, Dmitriy V. - 2015

Ethnic and migration processes in Russia after the collapse of The Soviet Union have significantly changed the ethnic composition of major Russian cities. On the one hand, we see continuing of assimilation of most national communities which historically lived in the largest Russian cities...

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Measuring labour differences between natives, non-natives, and natives with an ethnic-minority background

Drydakis, Nick - 2017

Through a field study we measure differences in employment outcomes between natives, non-natives, and natives with an ethnic-minority background. It is suggested that the joint effect of productivity uncertainties and distastes against ethnic-minority groups should be higher for non-natives than...

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