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well as from Turkey are steeper than the respective frontier of natives, which supports the assimilation hypothesis. No … assimilation is found for migrants from the European Union and from the former Yugoslavia. …
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equilibria: some countries have mostly temporary migration programs and see a low degree of cultural assimilation by the migrants …This paper examines the role of cultural factors in driving the politics and shape of migration policy. We show that … shortage in the economy. We show that countries that are poor at cultural assimilation are better positioned to take advantage …
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the results. Rather, the process of migration selects individuals who are more responsive to deterrent effects than the …
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reject the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis (IAH), which predicts that immigrants with shorter durations in 1983 should have … assimilation. We show that since the return to destination-specific skills increased during this period because of the very large … immigration, the assimilation curve changed its shape in a way that made it difficult to estimate even using panel data. …
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Research on the economic or labor market assimilation of immigrants has to date focused on the degree of improvement in … transferability of skills. This paper addresses whether positive assimilation will be found if skills are very highly transferable … internationally. It outlines the conditions for negative assimilation in the context of the traditional immigration assimilation model …
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The existing literature on immigrant assimilation has highlighted the imperfect portability of human capital acquired … assimilation upon arrival in the new country, as well as the wide initial earnings gap. Recent studies (Chiswick and Miller, 2007 … advances, a process of assimilation does exist, except for Asians and, in some circumstances, those from Sub-Saharan Africa …
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proportions in EB-2 and EB-3 sent remittances than in the cohort overall. (6) A little measure of assimilation - using dollars to …
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This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...
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This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271804
opportunities of less educated natives is scant. On the question of assimilation, the success of the U.S.-born children of …
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