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Valfort, Marie-Anne - In: IZA World of Labor (2018)

Discrimination is a complex, multi-factor phenomenon. Evidence shows widespread discrimination on various grounds … a woman. Combating discrimination requires combining the strengths of a range of anti-discrimination policies while also … addressing their weaknesses. In particular, policymakers should thoroughly address prejudice (taste-based discrimination …

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Growing Up in Ethnic Enclaves: Language Proficiency and Educational Attainment of Immigrant Children

Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2018

Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children’s acquisition of host-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across German regions during the 1960s and 1970s...

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Growing Up in Ethnic Enclaves: Language Proficiency and Educational Attainment of Immigrant Children

Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2018

Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children\'s acquisition of host-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across German regions during the 1960s and 1970s...

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Now and forever? Initial and subsequent location choices of immigrants

Åslund, Olof - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2001

This paper exploits a natural experiment to study the influence of regional factors on initial and subsequent location choices among immigrants. The results suggest that immigrants to Sweden are attracted to regions with high representation from the individual’s birth country and large overall...

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Do when and where matter? Initial labor market conditions and immigrant earnings

Åslund, Olof; Rooth, Dan-Olof - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2003

This paper investigates the long-term effects on immigrant earnings and employment from labor market conditions encountered upon arrival. We find substantial effects both of the state of the national labor market and of local unemployment rates. Comparing refugees entering Sweden in a severe and...

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Immigrant Settlement Policies and Subsequent Migration.

Aslund, O. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2000

Many countries consider the residential concentration among immigrants a problem. This paper studies the factors influencing individual location decisions and evaluates a Swedish attempt to change the residential distribution of refugee immigrants in the late 1980's. Despite common perceptions,...

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Labor market integration of migrants: Hidden costs and benefits in two-tier welfare states

König, Jan; Skupnik, Christoph - 2012

We apply a monopoly trade union model and analyze employment, wage and budgetary effects of (i) an inflow of migrant workers and (ii) an increase in the labor market participation rate of migrants. Per assumption, natives and migrants solely differ with respect to the level of benefit claims in...

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Elementary Facts about Immigration in Italy: What Do We Know about Immigration and Its Impact?

Mariani, Rama Dasi; Pasquini, Alessandra; Rosati, Furio C. - 2020

In the recent past, in Italy, immigration has been at the centre of academic and policy debates. Nonetheless, the still growing literature has focused mainly on the experience of old settlement countries and has mainly looked at single aspects of the phenomenon. In order to guide effective...

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Ethnic Drift and White Flight: A Gravity Model of Neighborhood Formation

Bakens, Jessie; Florax, Raymond; Mulder, Peter - 2016

Ethnicity has become an increasingly important factor in neighborhood formation in many developed economies. We specify a gravity model for neighborhoods to assess the role of ethnicity in intra-urban residential relocations. Migration patterns of different ethnic groups are hypothesized to...

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Economic liberalisation and the mobility of minority groups: evidence from Māori in New Zealand

Sin, Isabelle; Stillman, Steven - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 4, pp. 1-18

Between 1984 and 1993, New Zealand undertook comprehensive market-oriented economic reforms. In this paper, we use census data to examine how the internal mobility of Māori compares to that of Europeans in New Zealand in the period after these reforms. It is often suggested that Māori are less...

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