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Labor market integration of new immigrants in Spain

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; Nollenberger, Natalia - 2014

This paper assesses how new immigrants to Spain fare in the country's labor market, evaluating the conditions under which they are able to find employment, and their progress out of unskilled work into middle-skilled jobs. Using Spanish Labor Force Survey data from 2000 through 2011, we find...

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Job mobility as a new explanation for the immigrant-native wage gap : a longitudinal analysis for the German labor market

Brenzel, Hanna; Reichelt, Malte - 2015

Theoretically, wage gaps between migrants and natives can be explained by human capital theory through either depreciation in human capital with migration or differences in endowments. However, even after considering human capital measures, an unexplained difference remains. We assume that...

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Occupational mobility of immigrants in a low skilled economy : the Spanish case

Simón, Hipólito; Ramos, Raúl; Sanromá, Esteban - 2011

We analyze the occupational mobility of immigrants between their origin countries and Spain and its determinants. We use microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes to compute an internationally harmonized occupational status index (ISEI) that permits to quantify and properly analyze...

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Human capital transmission and the earnings of second-generation immigrants in Sweden

Hammarstedt, Mats; Palme, Mårten - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-23

We compare the earnings and the intergenerational earnings mobility of immigrants with natives in Sweden. We find an overall convergence in average earnings between immigrants and natives across generations. This convergence hides a divergence in average earnings between groups of immigrants...

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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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Intergenerational mobility, human capital transmission and the earnings of second-generation immigrants in Sweden

Hammarstedt, Mats (contributor); Palme, Mårten (contributor) - 2006

We compare the intergenerational earnings mobility of immigrants with natives in Sweden. We find an overall convergence in average earnings between immigrants and natives. This convergence hides a divergence in average earnings between groups of immigrants with different ethnic origins. We find...

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Occupational Mobility of Immigrants in a Low Skilled Economy : The Spanish Case

Simon, Hipolito - 2011

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The Impact of Employment in Israel on the Palestinian Labor Force

Etkes, Haggay - 2011

This study provides circumstantial evidence for the impact of permits for employment in Israel on the Palestinian labor force in the West Bank during the late Intifada period and its aftermath (2005-2008). The study utilizes a unique dataset that merges data from the Palestinian Labor Force...

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Wage and Occupational Assimilation by Skill Level

Alcobendas, Miguel - 2012

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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Moroccans', Ecuadorians' and Romanians' Assimilation in Spain

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2012

assimilation pattern in Spain regardless of their nationality (with Romanians faring worse in terms of legal status but better in …

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