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The Elusive Concept of Immigrant Quality: Evidence from 1970-1990
Regets, Mark C.; Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
The labor market "quality" of immigrants is a subject of debate among immigration researchers, and a major public policy concern. However, traditional methods of measuring human capital are particularly difficult to apply to recently arrived immigrants. Many factors that have a negative effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822525
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Assimilation of Migrants into the British Labour Market
Dickens, Richard; McKnight, Abigail - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2008
This paper discusses the extent to which migrants to Britain have been assimilated into the workforce. Migration into … migrant women just 4-6 years. Different nationalities experience different rates of assimilation, with Europeans catching up …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201147
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Assimilation of Migrants into the British Labour Market
Dickens, Richard; McKnight, Abigail - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008
This paper discusses the extent to which migrants to Britain have been assimilated into the workforce. Migration into … migrant women just 4-6 years. Different nationalities experience different rates of assimilation, with Europeans catching up …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010700454
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The Economic Payoff of Name Americanization
Biavaschi, Costanza; Giulietti, Corrado; Siddique, Zahra - Henley Business School, University of Reading - 2013
We examine the impact of the Americanization of names on the labor market outcomes of migrants. We construct a novel longitudinal data set of naturalization records in which we track a complete sample of migrants who naturalize by 1930. We find that migrants who Americanized their names...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010747652
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Economic Assimilation and Outmigration of Immigrants in West-Germany
Bellemare, C. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2003
By analyzing earnings of observed immigrants workers, the literature on the economic assimilation of immigrants has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011092252
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The Elusive Concept of Immigrant Quality: Evidence from 1970-1990
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - Department of Economics, College of William & Mary - 2013
The labor market "quality" of immigrants is a subject of debate among immigration researchers, and a major public policy concern. However, traditional methods of measuring human capital are particularly difficult to apply to recently arrived immigrants. Many factors that have a negative effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010631323
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Assimilation of Migrants into the British Labour Market
Dickens, Richard; McKnight, Abigail - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2008
This paper discusses the extent to which migrants to Britain have been assimilated into the workforce. Migration into … migrant women just 4-6 years. Different nationalities experience different rates of assimilation, with Europeans catching up …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838666
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The Economic Payoff of Name Americanization
Biavaschi, Costanza; Giulietti, Corrado; Siddique, Zahra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We examine the impact of the Americanization of names on the labor market outcomes of migrants. We construct a novel longitudinal data set of naturalization records in which we track a complete sample of migrants who naturalize by 1930. We find that migrants who Americanized their names...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959593
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Costs and Benefits of Labour Mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Countries: Country Study on Germany
Biavaschi, Costanza; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
fill this gap by studying the size and assimilation patterns of EaP migrants in Germany. Most EaP migrants in Germany come …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884398
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Russian migrants to Russia: Assimilation and local labor market effects
Lazareva, Olga - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-25
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586047