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associations between the number of mobile applications in use aiming to facilitate immigrants' societal integration (m … and voice assistants, public services, and medical services provide the highest returns on immigrants' level of … intelligence (AI) are associated with increased health/mental health and integration levels among immigrants. We indicate that AI …
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health outcomes of immigrants to Canada. Our results demonstrate that immigrants from conflict zones face unique physical …
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In this paper we deliver first causal evidence on the relationship between immigrant host country language proficiency … and homeownership. Using an instrumental variable strategy, we find a substantial positive impact of language skills on … capital and, in particular, language proficiency for socio-economic assimilation. …
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This paper is an analysis of the determinates of Hebrew language speaking and writing skills and the determinates of … earnings among adult male Jewish immigrants in Israel, using the 1972 Census of Israel. Among other findings, Hebrew speaking … migration and if many others in the area in which the respondent lives speak the same origin language. Country of origin and …
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We review and interpret research on the economic and political effects of receiving asylum seekers and refugees in … of the paper, we examine the consequences of receiving asylum seekers and refugees and identify two main findings. First …, the reception of refugees is unlikely to generate large direct economic effects. Both labor market and fiscal consequences …
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Immigrants face higher barriers to entry into occupations that rely on social skills. As a result, they are less likely …
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About 1.4 million refugees and irregular migrants arrived in Europe in 2015 and 2016. We model how refugees and … irregular migrants for multiple origin and destination countries. Refugees and female irregular migrants are positively self … irregular migrants are self-selected. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World …
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The labor market performance of immigrants relative to natives has been widely studied but its gender dimension has … been relatively neglected. Our paper aims at revisiting labor market convergence between immigrants and natives and …-2018. We measure convergence of labor market outcomes for male and female migrants to similar natives before and after the …
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-generation immigrants and 4 % is Hispanic. Intergenerational improvement is an important source of wage convergence of black immigrants …. Unskilled immigrants who arrive in the USA as children and adolescents experience substantial wage assimilation, especially … Caribbean-English and African-English immigrants. But both unskilled immigrants arriving as adults and all skilled immigrants …
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and manual skills, these discrepancies are larger among immigrants with limited language fluency. …We examine the ability of immigrants to transfer the occupational human capital they acquired prior to immigration. We … first augment a model of occupational choice to study the implications of language proficiency on the cross …
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