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dustmann, christian; Frattini, Tommaso - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2011

This paper starts with a brief historical overview of immigration in Europe. We then provide a comprehensive analysis of the skill structures of immigrants and their labor market integration in the different European countries, their position in the wage distribution, and the situation of their...

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The Complexity of Immigrant Generations: Implications for Assessing the Socioeconomic Integration of Hispanics and Asians

Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Much of the socioeconomic mobility achieved by U.S. immigrant families takes place across rather than within generations. When assessing the long-term integration of immigrants, it is therefore important to analyze differences not just between the foreign-born and U.S-born, but also across...

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Moroccans' Assimilation in Spain: Family-Based versus Labor-Based Migration

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; Vegas, Raquel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

An important immigration policy question is to identify the best criteria to select among potential migrants. At least two methodological problems arise: the host country's immigration policy regime endogeneity, and immigrants' unobserved heterogeneity. To address the first problem, we focus in...

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The Structure of Canada`s Immigration System and Canadian Labour Market Outcomes

Sweetman, Arthur; Warman, Casey - Economics Department, Queen's University - 2012

Two distinct issues are addressed. First, we explore earnings and employment outcome differences across categories of the immigrant selection system and directly link the points system to these outcomes, which is relatively rare in Canadian research. Second, the appropriateness of alternative...

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Immigrants' Assimilation Process In A Segmented Labor Market

Alcobendas, Miguel Angel; Rodréquez-Planas, Néria - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010

While much of the literature on immigrants assimilation has focused on countries with a large tradition of receiving … immigrations assimilation process. Using data from the 2000 to 2008 Labor Force Survey, we find that immigrants are more … occupationally mobile than natives, and that much of this greater flexibility is explained by immigrants assimilation process soon …

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Occupational mobility of immigrants in a low skilled economy. The Spanish case

Simón, Hipólito; Ramos, Raúl; Sanromá, Esteban - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2011

This research examines the occupational mobility of immigrants between their countries of origin and Spain, and its main determinants. It is based on microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes and the use of an international index of occupational status, the International Socio-Economic...

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Eastern Partnership Migrants in Germany: Outcomes, Potentials and Challenges

Biavaschi, Costanza; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Despite the ongoing dialogue on facilitating mobility between the European Union and the Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries, very little is known about the magnitude and characteristics of migration from these countries. We find that EaP migrants experience worse labor market outcomes than...

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Migration, Crisis and Adjustment in an Enlarged E(M)U: The Spanish Perspective

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; Farré, Lídia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper investigates the labour market and welfare changes experienced by enlarged-EU migrants before and after 2007. For this purpose, we briefly review the Spanish socio-economic institutional background, as well as its migration policy towards enlarged-EU citizens. Then we discuss the...

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Costs and Benefits of Labour Mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Countries Country Study: Italy

Marchetti, Sabrina; Piazzalunga, Daniela; Venturini, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

survey we analyse the employment situation, the over education of the migrants and their assimilation. …

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Labor market integration of new immigrants in Spain

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; Nollenberger, Natalia - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 5 (2016) 4, pp. 1-15

Immigrants' employment status has worsened during the Great Recession in Spain. How much of this worsening is due to the recession, and how much to a composition effect? Using Spanish Labor Force Survey data from 2000 through 2011, we compare the employment trajectories of different cohorts of...

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