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Refugees' integration in the Austrian labour market : occupational mobility and job-skills mismatch

Leitner, Sandra M.; Landesmann, Michael - 2020

wiiw publishes a detailed study on occupational mobility and job-skills mismatch of the recent wave of refugees from the Middle East (predominantly from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran) in the Austrian labour market. The study is based on two waves of an extensive survey of refugees conducted...

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Immigrant category of admission and the earnings of adults and children : how far does the apple fall?

Warman, Casey; Webb, Matthew; Worswick, Christopher - 2018

Immigrants in many Western countries have experienced poor economic outcomes. This has led to a lack of integration of child immigrants (the 1.5 generation) and the second generation in some countries. However, in Canada, child immigrants and the second generation have on average integrated very...

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Microeconometric analyses on economic consequences of selective migration

Ruhose, Jens - 2015

This volume was prepared by Jens Ruhose while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes four self-contained chapters that contribute to the understanding of the...

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Migration and social mobility within and between countries and its economic consequences in the period of globalization

Shirinzade, Natig - 2017

Ethnic and international conflicts have turned into a real headache for the modern world. The confrontations that have begun between the nations have escalated into serious conflicts that take the lives of thousands of innocent children, women and old people every year. Such conflicts create...

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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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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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Wage and Occupational Assimilation by Skill Level

Alcobendas, Miguel Angel; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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; Vegas, Raquel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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Immigrants from Eastern Partnership (EaP) Countries in Spain

Farré, Lídia; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Most EaP migrants in Spain come from Ukraine, followed by, to a much lesser extent, Moldavia, Armenia, and Georgia. Relative to other migrants, they are those who most recently arrived to Spain. Despite being considerably more educated than natives and other migrants, they are less likely to...

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