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assimilation pattern in Spain regardless of their nationality (with Romanians faring worse in terms of legal status but better in …
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An important immigration policy regime endogeneity, and immigrants' unobserved heterogeneity. To address the first problem, we focus in a country with an unprecedented immigration boom that lets immigrants freely into a country: Spain. To address the second problem, we focus on a large and...
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This chapter summarizes the literature on the evaluation of immigration policies. It brings together two strands of the literature dealing with the evaluation of labor market programs and with the economic integration of immigrants. Next to immigrant selection and settlement policies, there are...
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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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While much of the literature on immigrants' assimilation has focused on countries with a large tradition of receiving … immigrations' assimilation process. Using alternative datasets and methodologies, this paper provides evidence of a differential … assimilation pattern for low- versus high-skilled immigrants in Spain: our key finding is that having a high-school degree does not …
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This paper first presents a brief historical overview of immigration in Europe. We then provide (and distinguishing between EU and non-EU immigrants) a comprehensive analysis of the skill structures of immigrants and their labor market integration in the different European countries, their...
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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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While much of the literature on immigrants' assimilation has focused on countries with a large tradition of receiving … analyze immigrations' assimilation process. Using data from the 2000 to 2008 Spanish Labor Force Survey, we find that …' assimilation process soon after arrival. However, we find little evidence of convergence, especially among women and high skilled …
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This paper tracks the economic status of American Jewry over the past three centuries. It relies on qualitative material in the early period and quantitative data since 1890. The primary focus is on the occupational status of Jewish men and women, compared to non-Jews, with additional analyses...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009521467